Re: chmod again

["Larry Hall (RFK Partners, Inc.)" <lhall at rfk dot com>]

John Williams wrote:
> Hi Pierre,
>
> Pierre A. Humblet wrote:
>
> > If the files are on a shared drive, try CYGWIN=smbntsec
>
>
> Tried that, but it's a local drive.
>
> > In addition, your group name mkgroup_ indicates that you are a domain
> > user who has never executed mkgroup -l -d (and probably not mkpasswd 
> > -l -d).
>
>
> OK so I did
>
> $mkgroup -l -d > /etc/group
>
> and
>
> $mkpasswd -l -d > /etc/passwd
>
> and started a clean shell.  Now it looks like this:
>
> jwilliams at G435-9029 /cygdrive/d/uClinux-dist/user/init
> $ ls -alrt init
> -rw-r--r--    1 jwilliam Domain U    27984 Apr 15 11:45 init
>
> jwilliams at G435-9029 /cygdrive/d/uClinux-dist/user/init
> $ chmod 777 init
>
> jwilliams at G435-9029 /cygdrive/d/uClinux-dist/user/init
> $ ls -alrt init
> -rw-r--r--    1 jwilliam Domain U    27984 Apr 15 11:45 init
>
> ie, nothing's changed.  I tried the same with variants of ntsec and 
> nontsec, and the same result.
>
> Also to Igor, the output from cygcheck -svr is huge, should I attach all 
> of it, or is there a particular relevant snip?

How huge is "huge"?  The output from my system is 28K.

You're sure you're working on an NTFS partition and that you set
ntsec in your CYGWIN environment variable *before* starting any
Cygwin process (including services)?


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