Re: Root Privileges related

2011-03-28 Thread Larry Hall (Cygwin)
On 3/28/2011 4:23 PM, world peace wrote: Hi Larry, Thank you for your interest in my question first of all. When i try to do make or make install, the installer tries to write files to a location where I do not have permission and so it reports error and exits. When i check for permissions usi

Re: Root Privileges related

2011-03-28 Thread world peace
Hi Larry, Thank you for your interest in my question first of all. When i try to do make or make install, the installer tries to write files to a location where I do not have permission and so it reports error and exits. When i check for permissions using ls -l, all the files and folders have no

Re: Root Privileges related

2011-03-28 Thread world peace
Hi Larry, Thank you for your interest in my question first of all. When i try to do make or make install, the installer tries to write files to a location where I do not have permission and so it reports error and exits. When i check for permissions using ls -l, all the files and folders have no

Re: Root Privileges related

2011-03-28 Thread Greg Chicares
On 2011-03-28 18:19Z, world peace wrote: > Ques: I am trying to install some programs (meant for linux platform) > on cygwin. The instructions prompt me to do make, make install, > configure etc. The only problem is I don't know how to become root http://cygwin.com/faq/faq-nochunks.html#faq.using.

Re: Root Privileges related

2011-03-28 Thread Larry Hall (Cygwin)
On 3/28/2011 2:19 PM, world peace wrote: Hi All, this question is from a non-expert, basically using cygwin as a utility for day to day work. Ques: I am trying to install some programs (meant for linux platform) on cygwin. The instructions prompt me to do make, make install, configure etc. The o

Re: root privileges

2007-11-29 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Thu, Nov 29, 2007 at 09:54:33PM -0200, Jorge Marques Pelizzoni wrote: >First of all, please believe that I spent almost three hours going through >the mailing list archives before asking this. It's just that I (and many >others) have not been able to find a solution there. > >I'm not running a p

Re: root privileges

2007-11-29 Thread Jorge Marques Pelizzoni
First of all, please believe that I spent almost three hours going through the mailing list archives before asking this. It's just that I (and many others) have not been able to find a solution there. I'm not running a program that tests for rootness in some non-portable way. I'm just calling an