> Seeing the output (*attached*) from 'cygcheck -s -r -v' as requested by > would help. What does 'ls -ld /etc' > say? What does 'getfacl /etc' say? What about 'cacls c:\cygwin\etc'? > > In other words, who has permissions to change '/etc' and who's it's > owner? Sounds like you need to rejigger ownerships/permissions to make > this work. Perhaps try that based on the output of the above. I have attached output in text-files. -- -Alexey Eromenko "Technologov"