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Re: Interesting problem installing cygserver


On Sun, Nov 22, 2009 at 11:51 PM, Larry Hall (Cygwin)
<reply-to-list-only-lh@cygwin.com> wrote:
> On 11/22/2009 10:43 PM, Gregg Levine wrote:
>
> <snip>
>
>> $ /usr/bin/cygserver-config
>> Generating /etc/cygserver.conf file
>> chown: changing ownership of `/etc/cygserver.conf': Permission denied
>>
>>
>> Warning: The following function requires administrator privileges!
>
> <snip>
>
>> A good start is either you don't have administrator privileges
>> or a missing cygrunsrv binary. ?Please check for both.
>
> <snip>
>
>> I happen to have both. Cygwin was installed using the defaults on this
>> laptop who is running Windows Seven and this is the latest of the 1.7
>> installers.
>
> So you started the terminal you're using with "Run as Administrator"?
>
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Hello!
Close. The terminal is being run from an account with those
privileges. I believe however that it may not be able to gain the
right ones to write into the /etc directory.


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