Cygwin setup keeps showing error about package unknown in file inetutils-server.sh, so ran it manually and saw the actual problem:
$ cd /etc/postinstall $ ./inetutils-server.sh *** Warning: The permissions on the directory /var are not correct. *** Warning: They must match the regexp d..x..x..[xt] *** ERROR: Problem with /var directory. Exiting. *** Warning: The permissions on the directory /var are not correct. *** Warning: They must match the regexp d..x..x..[xt] *** ERROR: Problem with /var directory. Exiting. Both /var and /tmp have the same directory permissions as everything else, which is drwxrwx--- and getfacl says other:--- and icacls says Everyone:(Rc,S,RA). It's easy enough to fix the problem, grant everyone:f using icacls to /var and /tmp while I'm at it. My question is about how Cygwin setup works. Could Cygwin setup change directory permissions on install, first of all to *stop* permission inheritance from parent directory in the directory where it is installed, then, to specifically establish sensible default permissions on certain directories it creates like /var and /tmp so packages can get installed and run normally? A second topic is that I got blocked running Cygwin setup from a different user, since it was owned by first user and world writable permissions didn't exist. Could Cygwin setup allow everyone else to update Cygwin, perhaps the top single directory where Cygwin gets installed have parent inheritance cut off, and an original permission granted "Everyone:F"? -- 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
