From: earnie_boyd AT hotmail DOT com (Earnie Boyd) Subject: Re: problem with ownership of files under NT4.0 under b18 (NBY) 15 Dec 1997 18:35:51 -0800 Message-ID: <199712160152.RAA10241.cygnus.gnu-win32@f66.hotmail.com> Content-Type: text/plain To: svr AT cagent DOT com Cc: gnu-win32 AT cygnus DOT com Let me point you to: ftp://ftp.cygnus.com/pub/gnu-win32/latest/ http://www.cygnus.com/pubs/gnupro/ http://www.cygnus.com/misc/gnu-win32/ http://www.cygnus.com/ml/gnu-win32 http://www.fu.is.saga-u.ac.jp/~colin/gcc.html http://www.itribe.net/virtunix/winhelp-man-pages/ - \\||// ---o0O0--Earnie--0O0o---- -earnie_boyd AT hotmail DOT com- ------ooo0O--O0ooo------- >Date: Mon, 15 Dec 1997 12:38:21 -0800 >From: Ramesh Subrahmaniam >To: gnu-win32 AT cygnus DOT com >Subject: problem with ownership of files under NT4.0 under b18 > >I installed NT4.0 Spervice Pack 3 on a SCSI disk with the FAT file >system. I am having a problem compiling (with gnumake) the files >installed on this file system. I have tried NTFS also without great >success. > >When I do a ls -l on the source files it always shows the owner as being >0 and group as being everyone. > >The first source of the bug is when I try to do a make it complains >that I do not own the files. I tried to login as administrator and I go >into a DOS window and try to run chown. It always complains: > >I did the following combinations: > > chown 500 bullit . Error: bullit: Invalid >Argument > chown svr bullit. Error : Invalid User > chown -v 500 bullit. Says changing bullit owner to 500 > and then says bullit Invalid >argument. > >I then tried NTFS because the next natural thing might be to suspect the >file system. The owner of the file now became 544 which is in range of >the UIDs when I type mkpasswd -l. But still chown does not work. > >The next thing I tried is to modify the permissions. I did a chmod +w >. It failed silently meaning it did not change the >permissions. I did an ls -l to verify this. > >Now I wanted to make a tmp directory and etc directory on my /. My / is >not a the C: drive instead I want it to be D:. I have installed NT4.0 on >a SCSI disk which I added. How do I change my / mount point to be D: >instead of C:. I tried the mount command as follows: > mount d: / : Error fails with Device busy > >So I did the following: > > umount C:. Failed silently; did not do anything. > umount /. Failed siliently again. > >I am trying desperately to get this working for me. > >Can you please help? I will also be happy to go over any FAQs for these >kind of problems. Also how I modify the source to see what the problem >is? Where can I find the cygwin.dll source code? > >Thanks > >Ramesh > >- >For help on using this list (especially unsubscribing), send a message to >"gnu-win32-request AT cygnus DOT com" with one line of text: "help". > ______________________________________________________ Get Your Private, Free Email at http://www.hotmail.com - For help on using this list (especially unsubscribing), send a message to "gnu-win32-request AT cygnus DOT com" with one line of text: "help".