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Re: chmod again
On Tue, Apr 15, 2003 at 01:06:37PM +1000, John Williams wrote:
>Larry Hall (RFK Partners, Inc.) wrote:
>>John Williams wrote:
>>>Also to Igor, the output from cygcheck -svr is huge, should I attach
>>>all of it, or is there a particular relevant snip?
>>>
>>How huge is "huge"? The output from my system is 28K.
>
>Yes sounds about right - I call 28K huge enough to ask first before
>posting it verbatim to a newsgroup! :)
Despite being asked and the words at http://cygwin.com/bugs.html ?
>>You're sure you're working on an NTFS partition and that you set
>>ntsec in your CYGWIN environment variable *before* starting any
>>Cygwin process (including services)?
>
>I'm doing this on a fat32 partition...
That explains it. Try setting CYGWIN=ntea before changing permissions.
cgf
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