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Re: cygwin-1.3.20-1 breaks termcaps, Re: Re: cygwin-1.3.20-1 breakstermcaps


On Wed, 26 Feb 2003 fenk at in dot tum dot de wrote:
> On Wednesday, February 26, 2003 at 13:15:54, Ronald Landheer-Cieslak wrote:
> > This won't help you fix your problem, but might stop you from
> > running into new ones.. (see below)
> o.k. so I keep with one installation ...
Good. :)

> On Wednesday, February 26, 2003 at 13:25:13, Ronald Landheer-Cieslak wrote:
> > BTW: does the file /usr/share/terminfo/v/vt100 exist? If your
> > programs complain about a non-existant terminfo file, that might be
> > it.
> Yes it is there with all other types of terminals ...
> Is /etc/termcap then deprecated?
I dunno, but I don't see it used anywhere.

> : Is it maybe related to some wrong file permissions?
> : I changed from ntea to ntsec some while ago.
> While writing this, I thought I should check this.
> 
> I had the permissions:
> 
> drwx------+   2 admin    none        32768 Jul 24  2002 ./
> 
> Since I am in the admin-groups I could still access all
> files, but unfortunately this caused the problem.  After
> adding go+rx to all dirs /usr/share/terminfo/v/ and +r to
> vt100 it is working fine again.
> 
> Has someone a script to fix the permissions of all standard
> files to a reasonable value instead of +rx for all dirs and
> +r for all files?
$ chmod -R a+r *
?

or 
$ find -type d -exec chmod go+rx \{\} \;
$ find -type f -exec chmod go+3 \{\} \;
?

rlc



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