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Re: Permission denied calling configure on Win95
On Thu, Mar 06, 2003 at 05:00:55PM +0000, David Starks-Browning wrote:
>On Thursday 6 Mar 03, Christopher Faylor writes:
>> Before you do that, however, you might want to try this:
>>
>> cd /
>> chmod -R a+r .
>> chmod -R a+x bin sbin usr/sbin usr/local/bin lib/gcc-lib
>>
>> If you get errors from the "a+x" line above that's ok.
>
>This needs to get into the FAQ. But first I'd like to understand
>what's going on.
>
>Do we know why or whether it's read permission or execute permission
>or both?
This is supposed to be fixed in 1.3.21, so we can hold off on the FAQ. I was
going to release 1.3.21 today but I see there is one more problem with exim.
>If just execute permission, assuming it's not already solved by changes to
>setup.exe, couldn't it be handled by mounting those directories as
>executable?
The -R means change everything within the directory as well as the directory.
cgf
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