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Re: postinstall scripts don't run when installing onto samba share.
On Mon, 2004-11-15 at 15:36, Christopher Faylor wrote:
> On Mon, Nov 15, 2004 at 10:47:16AM +1100, Donovan Baarda wrote:
> >I don't understand why the execute bits would not be set.
>
> Remote shares are assumed to be non-executable by default for speed
> considerations.
>
> You can fix this by mounting the share with the -x option:
>
> mount -x -f //foo/bar /bar
>
> Mounting the share in that manner will cause cygwin (and setup
> postinstall scripts) to consider everything in /bar to be consdired
> executable. It might be better to mount any specific directories that
> you know will contain executable content with -x:
>
> mount -x -f //foo/c/cygwin/bin /bin
> mount -x -f //foo/c/cygwin/sbin /sbin
> mount -x -f //foo/c/cygwin/usr/sbin /usr/sbin
How do you tell this to setup.exe on a fresh install?
--
Donovan Baarda <abo@minkirri.apana.org.au>
http://minkirri.apana.org.au/~abo/
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