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From: Corinna Vinschen <corinna-cygwin@cygwin.com>
To: cygwin@cygwin.com
Subject: Re: Cygwin setup change directory permissions
Date: Mon, 07 Sep 2015 15:31:00 -0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20150907153127.GE20288@calimero.vinschen.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CADPfvJtN870b4jnAGfMEDHeYUVB8rW7NyZWOb0d86Q95rxLG2Q@mail.gmail.com>

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On Sep  7 10:24, Max Polk wrote:
> Cygwin setup keeps showing error about package unknown in file
> inetutils-server.sh, so ran it manually and saw the actual problem:
> 
> $ cd /etc/postinstall
> $ ./inetutils-server.sh
> *** Warning: The permissions on the directory /var are not correct.
> *** Warning: They must match the regexp d..x..x..[xt]
> *** ERROR: Problem with /var directory. Exiting.
> *** Warning: The permissions on the directory /var are not correct.
> *** Warning: They must match the regexp d..x..x..[xt]
> *** ERROR: Problem with /var directory. Exiting.

Duh, this is really annoying.  I have not much time ATM, so it
would be really nice if somebody could take a heart and patch the
csih helper script to do the right thing if user SID == group SID.

> Both /var and /tmp have the same directory permissions as everything
> else, which is drwxrwx--- and getfacl says other:--- and icacls says

These are not the default permissions as created by setup.  /var
is a 755, tmp an 1777 file.


Corinna

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Corinna Vinschen                  Please, send mails regarding Cygwin to
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Thread overview: 2+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2015-09-07 14:24 Max Polk
2015-09-07 15:31 ` Corinna Vinschen [this message]

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