Permissions on /var

[Corinna Vinschen]

On Oct 28 01:33, Jan Bruun Andersen wrote:
> Today, as I installed inetutils (I needed telnet for Cygwin; telnet
> for Windows 10 does nothing; no error, no nothing) I got an error from
> setup-084_64. The error message directed me to look at
> /var/log/setup.log.full. Here is the relevant part, very near the end:
> [...]
> I tracked the check down to a function in
> /usr/share/csih/cygwin-service-installation-helper.sh. It checks the
> permissions with a call to function csih_check_dir_perms which ends up
> doing this:

I just (belatedly) released a new version of the csih package, 0.9.9-1,
which is supposed to fix this installation problem.


HTH,
Corinna

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Corinna Vinschen                  Please, send mails regarding Cygwin to
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