Very many thanks, Igor. Yes, when thinking UNIX the answer is sort of
obvious - it is good to revise old knowledge! Best wishes, Peter
On Aug 30 2005, Igor Pechtchanski wrote:
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
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