No admin setup questions

Lavrentiev, Anton (NIH/NLM/NCBI) [C] lavr@ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
Tue Feb 23 16:08:15 GMT 2021


Hi All,

I just downloaded the freshest setup.exe from the website to update a very old installation on a work PC, and am running it with -B (no admin).

First thing I noticed is that the front page of the website (Cygwin.com) tells me that the latest Cygwin is 3.1.6, but the setup is downloading 3.1.7-1.

Also, I see a lot of messages in the cmd.exe "terminal" window, from where setup was run:  it seems to be logging all actions, including that I was not allowed to open service controller, and missing some rights, what the download and install path are, which packages are being downloaded, extracted and installing.

I do not remember seeing any of those in a "more regular" use (without the -B, when I just click the icon with the program).

Is that some sort of a debugging output left behind?  Just curios, if that's a debug version of the setup ended up on being offered for download inadvertently.

Also, procmail fails to post-install (I don't need it, so I don't basically care).

running: C:\cygwin64\bin\bash.exe --norc --noprofile "/etc/postinstall/procmail.sh"
abnormal exit: exit code=1

Thanks,
Anton


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