Jason Tishler wrote: > 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?
Yes. PTC for setup. Please please please don't add this kind of postinstall script. Max. -- 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/
