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Date: Mon, 14 Apr 2003 22:57:47 -0400
From: "Larry Hall (RFK Partners, Inc.)" <lhall AT rfk DOT com>
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To: John Williams <jwilliams AT itee DOT uq DOT edu DOT au>
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Subject: Re: chmod again
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John Williams wrote:
> Hi Pierre,
> 
> Pierre A. Humblet wrote:
> 
>> If the files are on a shared drive, try CYGWIN=smbntsec
> 
> 
> Tried that, but it's a local drive.
> 
>> In addition, your group name mkgroup_ indicates that you are a domain
>> user who has never executed mkgroup -l -d (and probably not mkpasswd 
>> -l -d).
> 
> 
> OK so I did
> 
> $mkgroup -l -d > /etc/group
> 
> and
> 
> $mkpasswd -l -d > /etc/passwd
> 
> and started a clean shell.  Now it looks like this:
> 
> jwilliams AT G435-9029 /cygdrive/d/uClinux-dist/user/init
> $ ls -alrt init
> -rw-r--r--    1 jwilliam Domain U    27984 Apr 15 11:45 init
> 
> jwilliams AT G435-9029 /cygdrive/d/uClinux-dist/user/init
> $ chmod 777 init
> 
> jwilliams AT G435-9029 /cygdrive/d/uClinux-dist/user/init
> $ ls -alrt init
> -rw-r--r--    1 jwilliam Domain U    27984 Apr 15 11:45 init
> 
> ie, nothing's changed.  I tried the same with variants of ntsec and 
> nontsec, and the same result.
> 
> Also to Igor, the output from cygcheck -svr is huge, should I attach all 
> of it, or is there a particular relevant snip?
> 

How huge is "huge"?  The output from my system is 28K.

You're sure you're working on an NTFS partition and that you set
ntsec in your CYGWIN environment variable *before* starting any
Cygwin process (including services)?


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