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 Date: Tue, 5 Aug 2003 07:35:03 -0400 From: Jason Tishler To: Max Bowsher Cc: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com, Seth Rubin Subject: Re: bug in setup.exe for postgresql-7.3.4-1 Message-ID: <20030805113503.GD2044@tishler.net> Mail-Followup-To: Max Bowsher , cygwin AT cygwin DOT com, Seth Rubin References: <00bb01c35a16$9057cf40$5400a8c0 AT starfruit> <20030804122611 DOT GC564 AT tishler DOT net> <01dd01c35b42$e5670910$017c883e AT starfruit> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <01dd01c35b42$e5670910$017c883e@starfruit> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4i Max, On Tue, Aug 05, 2003 at 11:58:07AM +0100, Max Bowsher wrote: > Jason Tishler wrote: > > 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. Would the following patch or an extension to it help? http://sources.redhat.com/ml/cygwin-apps/2003-04/msg00127.html > Please please please don't add this kind of postinstall script. OK, I won't. However, I've been getting hammered by this problem for some time. IIRC, since XP was released. Unfortunately, the following README blurb doesn't seem to help: 4. Cygwin PostgreSQL can fail to start or not function properly if certain files and directories have incorrect permissions. The following usually solves these kinds of problems: $ chmod a+rwx /tmp $ chmod a+rx /usr/bin /usr/bin/* Jason -- PGP/GPG Key: http://www.tishler.net/jason/pubkey.asc or key servers Fingerprint: 7A73 1405 7F2B E669 C19D 8784 1AFD E4CC ECF4 8EF6 -- 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/