chmod again

[Larry Hall (RFK Partners, Inc.)]

John Williams wrote:
> Larry Hall (RFK Partners, Inc.) wrote:
> 
>> John Williams wrote:
>>
>>> 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.
> 
> 
> Yes sounds about right - I call 28K huge enough to ask first before 
> posting it verbatim to a newsgroup! :)


That's polite.  That's a size we have to live with here.


>> 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)?
> 
> 
> I'm doing this on a fat32 partition...

OK, that's the problem then.  I guess you didn't read the FAQ entry:

Why doesn't chmod work?
<http://cygwin.com/faq/faq_4.html#SEC45>

chmod does nothing on FAT drives unless you're running some version
of NT and you're willing to incur the overhead of a large file in
your root (enabled by setting 'ntea' in your CYGWIN environment variable).

This has been a popular issue today.  Yours is the second email message
I've pointed to this FAQ entry in the last hour!   We'll be filling the
email archives with repeats fast. ;-)


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