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Reply-To: "Elfyn McBratney" <cygwin AT cygwin DOT com>
From: "Elfyn McBratney" <elfyn-cygwin AT exposure DOT org DOT uk>
To: "cygwin" <cygwin AT cygwin DOT com>, "Javier" <fjpp AT softhome DOT net>
References: <b2bp3o$968$1 AT main DOT gmane DOT org>
Subject: Re: Fortune 1.8.2 broken after upgrading to Cygwin 1.3.20?? (a problem with permissions?)
Date: Tue, 11 Feb 2003 21:49:26 -0000
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> but the contents of the dir haven't changed:
>
> total 3604
> drwx------+   2 Administ Ninguno      4096 Feb 11 21:58 ./
> drwx------+  29 Administ Ninguno      4096 Feb 11 21:58 ../
> - -rwx------+   1 Administ Ninguno    582159 Jan 30  2002 fortunes*
> - -rwx------+   1 Administ Ninguno     72748 Jan 30  2002 fortunes-o*
> - -rwx------+   1 Administ Ninguno      1596 Jan 30  2002
> fortunes-o.dat*
> - -rwx------+   1 Administ Ninguno     14200 Jan 30  2002 fortunes.dat*
> - -rwx------+   1 Administ Ninguno   2062443 Jan 30  2002 fortunes2*
> - -rwx------+   1 Administ Ninguno    637671 Jan 30  2002 fortunes2-o*
> - -rwx------+   1 Administ Ninguno      9576 Jan 30  2002
> fortunes2-o.dat*
> - -rwx------+   1 Administ Ninguno     46604 Jan 30  2002 fortunes2.dat*
> - -rwx------+   1 Administ Ninguno    144798 Jan 30  2002 limerick*
> - -rwx------+   1 Administ Ninguno      3484 Jan 30  2002 limerick.dat*
> - -rwx------+   1 Administ Ninguno     19725 Jan 30  2002 linuxcookie*
> - -rwx------+   1 Administ Ninguno       448 Jan 30  2002
> linuxcookie.dat*
> - -rwx------+   1 Administ Ninguno      7611 Jan 30  2002 osfortune*
> - -rwx------+   1 Administ Ninguno       168 Jan 30  2002 osfortune.dat*
> - -rwx------+   1 Administ Ninguno     27502 Jan 30  2002 startrek*
> - -rwx------+   1 Administ Ninguno       836 Jan 30  2002 startrek.dat*
> - -rwx------+   1 Administ Ninguno     38744 Jan 30  2002 zippy*
> - -rwx------+   1 Administ Ninguno      2224 Jan 30  2002 zippy.dat*
>
> Maybe is a permits probem /  thing??
>
> fortune> whoami
> javier
>
> I have reinstalled the software, and I see that the install program has
> given the files over to Administ.Ninguno ("Administrator / None" in
> spanish) ... but I am logged as "Javier" both in Cygwin and under
> windows, and am a member of the Administrators group?!


That'll be the problem then, as only Administrator has permission to r(ead),
w(rite) or (e)x(ecute) the file. If you reset the permissions, so that
either you are the owner or you have permissions to read/and or write if you
need to, on the files fortune should behave normally.


Regards,

Elfyn McBratney
elfyn AT exposure DOT org DOT uk
www.exposure.org.uk



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