X-Recipient: archive-cygwin AT delorie DOT com X-SWARE-Spam-Status: No, hits=-1.9 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00,FREEMAIL_FROM,T_RP_MATCHES_RCVD,T_TO_NO_BRKTS_FREEMAIL X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Message-ID: <30934365.post@talk.nabble.com> Date: Tue, 15 Feb 2011 11:27:39 -0800 (PST) From: hardya To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Subject: chmod indicates success, but does not succeed In-Reply-To: <20110215180356.GB20118@ednor.casa.cgf.cx> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit References: <30931008 DOT post AT talk DOT nabble DOT com> <30932818 DOT post AT talk DOT nabble DOT com> <4D5ABE96 DOT 7000604 AT sbcglobal DOT net> <20110215180356 DOT GB20118 AT ednor DOT casa DOT cgf DOT cx> X-IsSubscribed: yes Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help AT cygwin DOT com; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Id: List-Unsubscribe: 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 First let me appologise for the bad subject line and lack of explicit content. I realise the importance of following forum guidelines and I shall try to be clearer, at least within my ability. As mentioned at the beginning of my post, though perhaps not so clearly as I should. Cgywin was provided with a simulator called omnet++. I have read the omnet++ documentation and asked questions on forums but was still unable to resolve the issue. Regarding one of the resolutions to the possible cause by space in user name: there doesn't appear to be a passwd file in etc directory, so I cannot change that. Perhaps, as suggested, I should create a new windows user name without spaces and login as that person. But I guess I would have to recreate the directory structure over again for me to be the owner. Is this what the post about spaces is suggesting? Regarding the container directory: Directory owner is me and group is Administrators. This is the same for all files and directories I have every looked at. Regarding FAT, this is the integral C: drive and it is formatted NTFS. I think I did mention this, but I may have used wrong terminology or not been explicit. Sorry. Regarding reporting guidlines and running pre-checks: My disk is indexed and a search for cygcheck.* revealed nothing. I am not sure from where I should run cygcheck. I feel I have probably again left some obvious error in my post or have missed something obvious on the site, but it is not intentional and I appologise in advance. I have been looking at this on my own for a long time. I guess it's jusy inexperience. -- View this message in context: http://old.nabble.com/Newbie-confused-about-chmod-tp30931008p30934365.html Sent from the Cygwin list mailing list archive at Nabble.com. -- 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