X-Recipient: archive-cygwin@delorie.com X-SWARE-Spam-Status: No, hits=-1.9 required=5.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_00,SARE_MSGID_LONG40,SPF_PASS X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <782781.34739.qm@web33501.mail.mud.yahoo.com> References: <32517.57262.qm@web33505.mail.mud.yahoo.com> <4ABA9468.6060408@cygwin.com> <32405.5122.qm@web33504.mail.mud.yahoo.com> <4ABA99A9.6080103@cygwin.com> <510384.1152.qm@web33508.mail.mud.yahoo.com> <4ABAD5CB.1020208@cygwin.com> <140340.33560.qm@web33502.mail.mud.yahoo.com> <4ABB9291.2090501@cygwin.com> <782781.34739.qm@web33501.mail.mud.yahoo.com> Date: Thu, 24 Sep 2009 13:10:48 -0400 Message-ID: Subject: Re: sftp on a Windows 2003 server From: "Mark J. Reed" To: cygwin@cygwin.com Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 X-IsSubscribed: yes Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Id: List-Unsubscribe: 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 On Thu, Sep 24, 2009 at 12:27 PM, Dave M wrote: > *** Warning: The permissions on the directory /var are not correct. > *** Warning: They must match the regexp d..x..x..[xt] > *** ERROR: Problem with /var directory. Exiting. > > Test@S-EXSYSLOG01 ~ > $ ls -l /var That shows the permissions on the files *inside* of /var, not /var itself. Add the -d option to ls (ls -ld /var) to see the permissions on /var itself. But chances are it's like /var/cache, /var/lib, /var/run, and /var/tmp in your output, which have no "other" access at all, when they need at least execute. /var/empty, which you mentioned, already has the right permissions, as does /var/log. Very odd. -- Mark J. Reed -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple