Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help AT sourceware DOT cygnus DOT com; run by ezmlm List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner AT sources DOT redhat DOT com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin AT sources DOT redhat DOT com From: "John Pollock" To: Subject: Re: Strange problem - access to directories denied Date: Wed, 7 Mar 2001 10:45:22 -0500 Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 (Normal) X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook IMO, Build 9.0.2416 (9.0.2911.0) Importance: Normal X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.00.2919.6600 > C:\>cacls pktemp > C:\pktemp So you're saying that cacls [dirname] returned no output at all? That's indeed very strange; it should list the default perms on that directory. One thing that might help in debugging is removing the "@echo off" so that you can tell if it was the rd or the md that actually failed in your batch script. John -- Want to unsubscribe from this list? Check out: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple