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Re: Can't create new file/directory
- From: "Arek" <james at verge-rpg dot com>
- To: "Derek M. Tournear" <tournear at stanford dot edu>, <cygwin at cygwin dot com>
- Date: Thu, 31 Jan 2002 12:34:34 -0600
- Subject: Re: Can't create new file/directory
- References: <000b01c1aa81$5917a730$e2824f86@slac.stanford.edu>
Hrm...What's the output of 'ls -ld <dir>'?
James Potts
(james@verge-rpg.com)
----- Original Message -----
From: "Derek M. Tournear" <tournear@stanford.edu>
To: <cygwin@cygwin.com>
Sent: Thursday, January 31, 2002 12:01 PM
Subject: Can't create new file/directory
> Hello all,
>
> I recently re-installed cygwin, now I can't create a new file or
> directory within cygwin. I even made a new directory using explorer.
> Gave this directory the permissions everyone full control. In cygwin I
> chmod to 777 on this directory. It lets me chmod and chown on files and
> directories. But if I go in that directory and try to make a new file
> or directory it says permission denied.
>
> any ideas?
> thanks,
>
> Derek M. Tournear
> SLAC Research Associate (650) 926-3971 fax (650) 926-4335
> GOD BLESS AMERICA!
> http://www.slac.stanford.edu/~tournear
>
>
>
>
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