X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org To: cygwin@cygwin.com From: "H. S." Subject: cygwin file permissions change after installation Date: Thu, 01 Dec 2005 16:56:44 -0500 Lines: 30 Message-ID: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 1.0 (Windows/20041206) X-IsSubscribed: yes 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 Hi, Am I supposed to make any changes to certain files's permissions after installing Cygwin? I installed Cygwin (ver 1.5.18-1) and noticed that many websites suggesting changing certain files' permissions to system:system. This installation was on Windows XP computer. I ask because I noticed that sshd.log file is still empty (0 bytes). Is this normal? $ ls -al /var/log/* -rw-r--r-- 1 root None 277380 Dec 1 16:23 /var/log/lastlog -rw-r--r-- 1 root None 1141262 Dec 1 00:30 /var/log/setup.log -rw-r--r-- 1 root None 331 Dec 1 00:30 /var/log/setup.log.full -rw-r--r-- 1 root None 0 Dec 1 01:37 /var/log/sshd.log $ ls -anl /var/log/* -rw-r--r-- 1 1004 513 277380 Dec 1 16:23 /var/log/lastlog -rw-r--r-- 1 1004 513 1141262 Dec 1 00:30 /var/log/setup.log -rw-r--r-- 1 1004 513 331 Dec 1 00:30 /var/log/setup.log.full -rw-r--r-- 1 1004 513 0 Dec 1 01:37 /var/log/sshd.log $ uname CYGWIN_NT-5.1 $ uname -a CYGWIN_NT-5.1 red 1.5.18(0.132/4/2) 2005-07-02 20:30 i686 unknown unknown Cygwin thanks, ->HS -- 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/