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Re: postinstall scripts don't run when installing onto samba share.
On Mon, Nov 15, 2004 at 03:56:01PM +1100, Donovan Baarda wrote:
>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?
AFAIK, you can't. Sorry.
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