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Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] inetutils 1.9.4-1


On Thu, 19 Jul 2018 12:19:10 -0700
Gary Johnson wrote:
>     2018/07/19 11:54:24 running: C:\cygwin\bin\bash.exe --norc --noprofile "/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.
...
> I've never had problems like this before.  I had exited all Cygwin
> programs before running setup.  I normally run cron, but I stopped
> that, and ssh-agent, but I killed that.  I checked the permissions
> on /var, and while they don't match the regexp d..x..x..[xt],
> I didn't create that directory and setup has never reported any
> issues with it before.

/etc/postinstall/inetutils-server.sh has not been changed.
Therefore installing previous version (1.9.1-2) should cause same error.

>     $ ls -ld /var
>     drwxrwx---+ 1 Administrators Domain Users 0 Jul 19 03:57 /var

Please chmod /var directory to match regexp d..x..x..[xt]
for example: chmod 755 /var

-- 
Takashi Yano <takashi.yano@nifty.ne.jp>

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