Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help AT cygwin DOT com; run by ezmlm List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner AT cygwin DOT com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin AT cygwin DOT com X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com From: "Javier" Subject: Re: Fortune 1.8.2 broken after upgrading to Cygwin 1.3.20?? (a problem with permissions?) Date: Wed, 12 Feb 2003 00:04:01 +0100 Lines: 48 Message-ID: References: <027f01c2d217$7522c950$15fe86d9 AT webdev> X-Complaints-To: usenet AT main DOT gmane DOT org X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Newsreader: Microsoft Outlook Express 6.00.2800.1106 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2800.1106 "Elfyn McBratney" escribió en el mensaje news:027f01c2d217$7522c950$15fe86d9 AT webdev... > > 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. > Yes, I did chmod +r the files in the dir, and now I can get my fortunes all right ;) Thanks for the tip ;:) What I find somewhat troubling is that the install program assigns the files to the Adminstrator user?? I mean, shouldn't setup.exe run as "My" user (the same one I am on Windows? ) Just a thought... Javier > Regards, > > Elfyn McBratney > elfyn AT exposure DOT org DOT uk > www.exposure.org.uk > > > -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Bug reporting: http://cygwin.com/bugs.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/