Permissions on /var

Jan Bruun Andersen jan_bruun_andersen@jabba.dk
Wed Oct 28 22:14:00 GMT 2015


Looks good. No errors are reported on my end now.

On 28 October 2015 at 14:28, Corinna Vinschen <corinna-cygwin@cygwin.com> wrote:
> 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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