On Sat, 28 Dec 2019 at 20:23, Lee <ler...@gmail.com> wrote: > > On 12/28/19, Andrey Repin wrote: > > Greetings, Peter Binney! > > > > Bottom posting in this list, please. > > > >> Hello Andrey - many thanks again. > > > >> I have added noacl to the default fstab entry, so it reads: > >> none /cygdrive cygdrive noacl,binary,posix=0,user 0 0 > > > >> and that sorts out the permissions problem, thank you. > > > >> But, bizarrely, it introduced a new one - the WHICH command no longer > >> reports non-executable files on the PATH. > > Try adding the exec option to fstab: > > $ grep cygdrive /etc/fstab > # none /cygdrive cygdrive binary,posix=0,user 0 0 > none /cygdrive cygdrive binary,posix=0,user,noacl,exec 0 0 > > $ which xcopy > /cygdrive/c/windows/system32/xcopy > > $ ls -l /cygdrive/c/windows/system32/xcopy > -rwxr-xr-x 2 Lee None 47616 Sep 15 2018 > /cygdrive/c/windows/system32/xcopy.exe > > Regards, > Lee
Hi Lee - many thanks indeed for that. I've added "exec" and WHICH now works. Cheers, Peter -- 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
