Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin@cygwin.com Date: Sun, 14 Nov 2004 23:58:00 -0500 From: Christopher Faylor To: cygwin@cygwin.com Subject: Re: postinstall scripts don't run when installing onto samba share. Message-ID: <20041115045800.GH1917@trixie.casa.cgf.cx> Reply-To: cygwin@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com References: <1100476036.1290.16.camel@schizo> <20041115043622.GD1917@trixie.casa.cgf.cx> <1100494560.1298.220.camel@schizo> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <1100494560.1298.220.camel@schizo> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.1i On Mon, Nov 15, 2004 at 03:56:01PM +1100, Donovan Baarda wrote: >On Mon, 2004-11-15 at 15:36, Christopher Faylor wrote: >> On Mon, Nov 15, 2004 at 10:47:16AM +1100, Donovan Baarda wrote: >> >I don't understand why the execute bits would not be set. >> >> Remote shares are assumed to be non-executable by default for speed >> considerations. >> >> You can fix this by mounting the share with the -x option: >> >> mount -x -f //foo/bar /bar >> >> Mounting the share in that manner will cause cygwin (and setup >> postinstall scripts) to consider everything in /bar to be consdired >> executable. It might be better to mount any specific directories that >> you know will contain executable content with -x: >> >> mount -x -f //foo/c/cygwin/bin /bin >> mount -x -f //foo/c/cygwin/sbin /sbin >> mount -x -f //foo/c/cygwin/usr/sbin /usr/sbin > >How do you tell this to setup.exe on a fresh install? AFAIK, you can't. Sorry. -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/