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Re: Root Privileges related
On 3/28/2011 4:23 PM, world peace wrote:
Hi Larry,
Thank you for your interest in my question first of all.
When i try to do make or make install, the installer tries to write
files to a location where I do not have permission and so it reports
error and exits.
When i check for permissions using ls -l, all the files and folders
have nothing but blanks.
----------+ 1 Lab None 1057390384 Feb 15 20:58 test1.txt
----------+ 1 Lab None 300573141 Feb 15 21:58 test2.txt
----------+ 1 Lab None 645853504 Feb 15 22:09 test3.txt
d---------+ 1 Lab None 0 Mar 23 14:21 ../
d---------+ 1 Lab None 0 Mar 28 15:44 ./
In this example, "Lab" is my windows username. Please see if it helps
at all to understand this situation and any possible solution for me.
I can think of a number of reasons why you see the permissions the way
you are seeing them. Before I speculate though, I recommend you try a
simple "chmod -R ug+rwx <dir>" where <dir> is the directory on which you
want to change permissions. If that doesn't work for you, I recommend you
read and follow the problem reporting guidelines found here:
<http://cygwin.com/problems.html>
That will allow anyone on this list to evaluate the basics of your
installation and ask intelligent follow-up questions, if not provide
a solution.
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Larry
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