I'm running cygwin off of a network share so that students all over campus can run it without having to install it locally on each computer. Each users HOME directory is mapped to their My Documents folder. I realize this is not a supported configuration, but I'd appreciate any help I can get.
Everything was working fine but at some point the scripts all lost the execute permission setting, i.e. > ls -l nice.exe nroff -rwxr-xr-x 1 cyguser cyggroup 25088 Jan 6 23:49 nice.exe -rw-r--r-- 1 cyguser cyggroup 1955 Dec 16 12:03 nroff As a consequence "man" no longer works (I get the "/usr/bin/nroff: not found" error message). Searching the mailing list seems to indicate that I've got a permission problem when using "ntsec" security. I've turned ntsec off and I still have the same problem however. The mailing list also indicated that using "cacls" might help to point out the permission problem. cacls doesn't seem to work on a network share however. All users have read and execute permission (NT permissions) on all files. But this doesn't seem to map to UNIX style execute permission for scripts. The User's Guide indicates I can find the NT permissions to Unix style permission mapping by looking in security.cc. I looked but couldn't understand it. Thanks for any help, Tony Richardson -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Bug reporting: http://cygwin.com/bugs.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/