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From: "Elfyn McBratney" <elfyn AT exposure DOT org DOT uk>
To: "cygwin" <cygwin AT cygwin DOT com>
References: <006101c2f0e6$58185850$086a86d9 AT ellixia> <20030323032630 DOT GA16412 AT redhat DOT com>
Subject: Re: Hate to say it, but...I've got the (dreadded) PID problem
Date: Sun, 23 Mar 2003 03:33:18 -0000
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> On Sun, Mar 23, 2003 at 02:46:00AM -0000, Elfyn McBratney wrote:
> >...While fixing the permissions on my
> >installation (via a combination of `find -exec' and `chmod'), and when I
say
> >while I mean pretty much straight away, I started getting tones of
"Access
> >is denied" messages from find.
>
> If you needed to do the chmod thing then that should be your first line
> of attack.  Do this from a console window, not running cygwin:
>
> cd c:\cygwin
> chmod -R a+r bin lib sbin usr etc tmp var
> chmod -R a+x bin sbin usr/sbin usr/local/bin lib/gcc-lib/*.exe
usr/X11R6/bin

I get "Access is denied". After a reboot this works, but as soon as I start
building my companies toolchains (GNU Autotools based) I start getting the
"Access is denied" message all over again...

> Although, theoretically, this shouldn't be necessary if you have used
> the latest version of setup.

I did, but coming from a sysadmin prospective I don't like all of my files
being world-writable ;-)

> cgf


Regards,

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



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