> On Sun, Mar 23, 2003 at 02:46:00AM -0000, Elfyn McBratney wrote: > >...While fixing the permissions on my > >installation (via a combination of `find -exec' and `chmod'), and when I say > >while I mean pretty much straight away, I started getting tones of "Access > >is denied" messages from find. > > If you needed to do the chmod thing then that should be your first line > of attack. Do this from a console window, not running cygwin: > > cd c:\cygwin > chmod -R a+r bin lib sbin usr etc tmp var > chmod -R a+x bin sbin usr/sbin usr/local/bin lib/gcc-lib/*.exe usr/X11R6/bin
I get "Access is denied". After a reboot this works, but as soon as I start building my companies toolchains (GNU Autotools based) I start getting the "Access is denied" message all over again... > Although, theoretically, this shouldn't be necessary if you have used > the latest version of setup. I did, but coming from a sysadmin prospective I don't like all of my files being world-writable ;-) > cgf Regards, Elfyn McBratney [EMAIL PROTECTED] www.exposure.org.uk -- 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/
