On Mon, Aug 04, 2003 at 12:25:43AM +0100, Max Bowsher wrote: > Seth Rubin wrote: > > Myself (and Jason) are thinking there's an issue with the cygwin > > setup. Maybe I'm being naive, but all this seems is an issue with > > chmod and/or copy not being done properly on the postgres.exe file > > during installation. I don't see where ACL's or ntsec enters into > > it. > > Here's how: > Cygwin setup *doesn't* chmod anything at all. Hence, the file > permissions end up being set by normal Windows inheritance. Now, > interpret that through ntsec, and you end up with mode 700 - on your > particular system. Setup does try to help things to turn out right, by > setting the group to Users, on the grounds that most systems will > grant Users at least Read&Execute, and most users will be in group > Users. That apparently doesn't hold true on your setup, hence your > problems.
Is there any way to solve this problem without me adding a postinstall script that performs a "chmod +rx" on all *.exe and *.dll files installed by this packages? Thanks, Jason -- PGP/GPG Key: http://www.tishler.net/jason/pubkey.asc or key servers Fingerprint: 7A73 1405 7F2B E669 C19D 8784 1AFD E4CC ECF4 8EF6 -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/
