On Tue, Feb 15, 2011 at 05:57:42PM +0000, Greg Chicares wrote: >On 2011-02-15 16:52Z, hardya wrote: >[...] >> Andrew Hardy@ANDREWHARDY ~/mywsn/LSU-SensorSimulator/samples >> $ chmod -v 777 Simulation >> mode of `Simulation' changed to 0777 (rwxrwxrwx) >> >> Andrew Hardy@ANDREWHARDY ~/mywsn/LSU-SensorSimulator/samples >> $ ls -l Simulation >> -rw-r--r-- 1 Andrew Hardy Administrators 238835 Oct 28 2005 Simulation > >Could that be due to a space in your username? > http://cygwin.com/faq-nochunks.html#faq.setup.name-with-space
Actually, we should stop trying to guess and insist on the information requested here: http://cygwin.com/problems.html In particular, cygcheck output would probably be very instructive since I suspect either a FAT32 filesystem or CYGWIN=nontsec setting. This page also suggests that a subject like "Newbie blah isn't very helpful. cgf -- 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