X-Recipient: archive-cygwin AT delorie DOT com X-SWARE-Spam-Status: No, hits=4.9 required=5.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_50,BOTNET,RCVD_IN_DNSWL_NONE X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Message-id: <4F6764A5.5060407@cygwin.com> Date: Mon, 19 Mar 2012 12:53:57 -0400 From: "Larry Hall (Cygwin)" Reply-to: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; WOW64; rv:10.0.2) Gecko/20120216 Thunderbird/10.0.2 MIME-version: 1.0 To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Subject: Re: How to run Hadoop on Cygwin with proper credentials to enable setting file permissions, etc.? References: In-reply-to: Content-type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; 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 3/14/2012 9:32 AM, James Adams wrote: > I cannot change the permissions on files when I run Hadoop in Cygwin: > > java.io.IOException: Failed to set permissions of path: > \tmp\hadoop-James\mapred\staging\James-1143336710\.staging to 0700 > >> From what I've gathered you can't really run Cygwin as root since > Windows doesn't really have a notion of root (reference: > http://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/2009-01/msg00338.html), and I've tried to > run Cygwin as the Administrator user but this option isn't available > to me when I right click on the Cygwin shortcut in Windows XP (I've > also tried changing the Cygwin shortcut's properties to allow me to > run as another user but that option is disabled). > > Can anyone advise me as to how I can get past this issue? Thanks in > advance for your help. I'm guessing you're not a member of the Administrators group then. -- Larry _____________________________________________________________________ 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