On Tue, 30 Aug 2005, PJ Halls wrote: > Having had the Cygwin environment on several staff systems for some > time, we now desire to roll this out into classrooms but have hit a > problem. > > For our classrooms, it is policy that all managed software be installed > on read-only drives / C: partitions to prevent students meddling. > However, for Cygwin to run it must have write access to /tmp and > /var/tmp. Is there any way to 'redirect' these essentials from the > Cygwin home space onto, for example, C:/temp (which is the only part of > C: to which we permit our students write access)?
"man mount" and/or <http://cygwin.com/cygwin-ug-net/using-utils.html#mount>. You may also need to redirect /home (the default /etc/profile may try to create a directory for the student there), and maybe others, too. Igor -- http://cs.nyu.edu/~pechtcha/ |\ _,,,---,,_ [EMAIL PROTECTED] ZZZzz /,`.-'`' -. ;-;;,_ [EMAIL PROTECTED] |,4- ) )-,_. ,\ ( `'-' Igor Pechtchanski, Ph.D. '---''(_/--' `-'\_) fL a.k.a JaguaR-R-R-r-r-r-.-.-. Meow! If there's any real truth it's that the entire multidimensional infinity of the Universe is almost certainly being run by a bunch of maniacs. /DA -- 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/
