X-Recipient: archive-cygwin AT delorie DOT com X-SWARE-Spam-Status: No, hits=-2.5 required=5.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_00,SPF_HELO_PASS X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Message-ID: <4B4A868C.20908@cygwin.com> Date: Sun, 10 Jan 2010 21:01:48 -0500 From: "Larry Hall (Cygwin)" Reply-To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.8.1.21) Gecko/20090320 Remi/2.0.0.21-1.fc8.remi Lightning/0.9 Thunderbird/2.0.0.21 Mnenhy/0.7.5.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Subject: Re: Running Cygwin from an NFS drive (symlinks with system attribute) References: In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help AT cygwin DOT com; run by ezmlm List-Id: 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 On 01/10/2010 06:33 PM, sbremal AT hotmail DOT com wrote: > > Hello, > > I am trying to run Cygwin from an NFS drive. Everything works fine as > long as no symbolic link executables are invoked: > > $ awk > bash: /usr/bin/awk: Permission denied One option is to invoke the executable pointed to instead. Another is to replace the symbolic link with a hard link. A third is to use SAMBA instead. > The NFS drive does not seem to support the DOS system attribute which > makes basic UNIX utilities unavailable. > > Is there any way to tell Cygwin to ignore the system attribute? No. If the R/O attribute is supported, then a fourth option would be to convert the symbolic links to their "winsymlinks" format. If course, doing that means you loose UTF character support. See for more on this option. -- Larry Hall http://www.rfk.com RFK Partners, Inc. (508) 893-9779 - RFK Office 216 Dalton Rd. (508) 893-9889 - FAX Holliston, MA 01746 _____________________________________________________________________ A: Yes. > Q: Are you sure? >> A: Because it reverses the logical flow of conversation. >>> Q: Why is top posting annoying in email? -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple