On Thu, Mar 06, 2003 at 05:00:55PM +0000, David Starks-Browning wrote: >On Thursday 6 Mar 03, Christopher Faylor writes: >> Before you do that, however, you might want to try this: >> >> cd / >> chmod -R a+r . >> chmod -R a+x bin sbin usr/sbin usr/local/bin lib/gcc-lib >> >> If you get errors from the "a+x" line above that's ok. > >This needs to get into the FAQ. But first I'd like to understand >what's going on. > >Do we know why or whether it's read permission or execute permission >or both?
This is supposed to be fixed in 1.3.21, so we can hold off on the FAQ. I was going to release 1.3.21 today but I see there is one more problem with exim. >If just execute permission, assuming it's not already solved by changes to >setup.exe, couldn't it be handled by mounting those directories as >executable? The -R means change everything within the directory as well as the directory. cgf -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Bug reporting: http://cygwin.com/bugs.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/
