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: <20051023194156.55971.qmail@web25702.mail.ukl.yahoo.com> Date: Sun, 23 Oct 2005 20:41:56 +0100 (BST) From: Alastair Burnett Subject: Error creating files in /tmp To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Hi, I have an 'interesting' problem - we have some software tools which require cygwin. For various reasons, we can't install cygwin on a local machine - all that the tools require is the cygwin1.dll and bash.exe, in theory at least. The tools and cygwin dependancies are all running from a mapped network drive - say f:\tools\bin. Now, when I run the tools from another mapped drive - say a g: drive, I initially got the error about not being able to find a /tmp directory, so I simply did 'mkdir /tmp' and got past this. However, now the tools bail out because it can't create a file in /tmp - which is the problem I'm having. Anyone got any idea how to get round this - as I mention, we can't do a full install of cygwin on the local machine, which would solve the problem quite easily. If I start a bash shell (i.e. from f:\tools\bin) then I'm able to create files without any problem - so I'm not sure why I get this error when using the tools I'm working with ... Any help is most welcome. Regards, AB. ___________________________________________________________ To help you stay safe and secure online, we've developed the all new Yahoo! Security Centre. http://uk.security.yahoo.com -- 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/