RE: Setup.exe won't run from Bash on Windows 8

2013-06-18 Thread Buchbinder, Barry (NIH/NIAID) [E]
Yaakov (Cygwin/X) sent the following at Monday, June 17, 2013 7:17 PM >On 2013-06-17 18:13, Chloe wrote: >> But it will run if I double click it from Explorer. I have >> execute permissions. What is wrong? > >Due to UAC Installer Detection, setup.exe requires Admin permissions >in order to run, b

Re: Setup.exe won't run from Bash on Windows 8

2013-06-17 Thread Yaakov (Cygwin/X)
On 2013-06-17 18:13, Chloe wrote: But it will run if I double click it from Explorer. I have execute permissions. What is wrong? Due to UAC Installer Detection, setup.exe requires Admin permissions in order to run, but bash doesn't know that. Use cygstart /path/to/setup.exe to work around th

Re: Setup.exe won't run from Bash on Windows 8

2013-06-17 Thread Dan Kegel
On Mon, Jun 17, 2013 at 4:13 PM, Chloe wrote: > But it will run if I double click it from Explorer. I have execute > permissions. What is wrong? Does cmd /c setup.exe work? -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation:

Setup.exe won't run from Bash on Windows 8

2013-06-17 Thread Chloe
But it will run if I double click it from Explorer. I have execute permissions. What is wrong? Chloe@xps ~ $ /setup.exe -bash: /setup.exe: Permission denied Chloe@xps ~ $ ls -l /setup.exe -rwx--+ 1 Chloe None 705053 Jun 13 02:03 /setup.exe Chloe@xps ~ $ icacls 'c:\cygwin\setup.exe' c:\cygw