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From: Adam Dinwoodie <adam@dinwoodie.org>
To: "cygwin@cygwin.com" <cygwin@cygwin.com>
Subject: Re: No admin setup questions
Date: Sat, 27 Feb 2021 19:15:34 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <CA+kUOanVEoKAyeX-FsXS5SSfNxhyaDo8Q3CVLHuysuVLPjyt6g@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <DM8PR09MB7095A80D887694CCAFA05F01A59C9@DM8PR09MB7095.namprd09.prod.outlook.com>

On Sat, 27 Feb 2021 at 02:45, Lavrentiev, Anton (NIH/NLM/NCBI) [C] via
Cygwin wrote:
>
> > Your non-elevated non-admin USER may not have perms to create logs in any of the
> > usual places /var/log/, /tmp/, ./, /
>
> No, I'm the sole user of this installation (that is, all files are "owned" by my user ID, under the Cygwin root)...
>
> The real reason was explained to me in a private response that I am posting below.

Apologies for the private response! Clearly my mail client got the
better of me; I'd intended to reply to the list.

  reply	other threads:[~2021-02-27 19:16 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2021-02-27  2:44 Lavrentiev, Anton (NIH/NLM/NCBI) [C]
2021-02-27 19:15 ` Adam Dinwoodie [this message]
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2021-02-23 16:08 Lavrentiev, Anton (NIH/NLM/NCBI) [C]
2021-02-23 21:51 ` Brian Inglis

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