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-Info: This message was accepted for relay by smtp03.mrf.mail.rcn.net as the sender used SMTP authentication X-Trace: UmFuZG9tSVZkqN2HSLD4EPhfnp2w3H387ikJHcDsHQGwyMczCBSMR4XFMayIv4PP Message-ID: <3E9B7BCD.6030204@rfk.com> Date: Mon, 14 Apr 2003 23:26:05 -0400 From: "Larry Hall (RFK Partners, Inc.)" Reply-To: lhall AT rfk DOT com User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.3) Gecko/20030312 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: John Williams CC: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Subject: Re: chmod again References: <20030415023356 DOT GA48685509 AT hpn5170x> <3E9B752B DOT 6080502 AT rfk DOT com> <20030415031435 DOT GC8800 AT redhat DOT com> In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit John Williams wrote: > Christopher Faylor wrote: > >>> I'm doing this on a fat32 partition... >> >> >> That explains it. Try setting CYGWIN=ntea before changing permissions. > > > OK done. Well it does something different now, but still doesn't work: > > jwilliams AT G435-9029 /cygdrive/d/uClinux-dist/user/init > $ export CYGWIN=ntea Ah, this won't work. You can't be running *any* Cygwin process when setting this value. -- Larry Hall lhall AT rfk DOT com RFK Partners, Inc. http://www.rfk.com 838 Washington Street (508) 893-9779 - RFK Office Holliston, MA 01746 (508) 893-9889 - FAX -- 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/