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 Message-ID: <01dd01c35b42$e5670910$017c883e@starfruit> From: "Max Bowsher" To: "Jason Tishler" , Cc: "Seth Rubin" References: <00bb01c35a16$9057cf40$5400a8c0 AT starfruit> <20030804122611 DOT GC564 AT tishler DOT net> Subject: Re: bug in setup.exe for postgresql-7.3.4-1 Date: Tue, 5 Aug 2003 11:58:07 +0100 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2800.1165 Jason Tishler wrote: > On Mon, Aug 04, 2003 at 12:25:43AM +0100, Max Bowsher wrote: >> Seth Rubin wrote: >>> Myself (and Jason) are thinking there's an issue with the cygwin >>> setup. Maybe I'm being naive, but all this seems is an issue with >>> chmod and/or copy not being done properly on the postgres.exe file >>> during installation. I don't see where ACL's or ntsec enters into >>> it. >> >> Here's how: >> Cygwin setup *doesn't* chmod anything at all. Hence, the file >> permissions end up being set by normal Windows inheritance. Now, >> interpret that through ntsec, and you end up with mode 700 - on your >> particular system. Setup does try to help things to turn out right, by >> setting the group to Users, on the grounds that most systems will >> grant Users at least Read&Execute, and most users will be in group >> Users. That apparently doesn't hold true on your setup, hence your >> problems. > > Is there any way to solve this problem without me adding a postinstall > script that performs a "chmod +rx" on all *.exe and *.dll files > installed by this packages? Yes. PTC for setup. Please please please don't add this kind of postinstall script. Max. -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/