On Sat, 27 Feb 2021 at 02:45, Lavrentiev, Anton (NIH/NLM/NCBI) [C] via Cygwin wrote: > > > Your non-elevated non-admin USER may not have perms to create logs in any > > of the > > usual places /var/log/, /tmp/, ./, / > > No, I'm the sole user of this installation (that is, all files are "owned" by > my user ID, under the Cygwin root)... > > The real reason was explained to me in a private response that I am posting > below.
Apologies for the private response! Clearly my mail client got the better of me; I'd intended to reply to the list. -- Problem reports: https://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: https://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: https://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: https://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple