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Re: Fortune 1.8.2 broken after upgrading to Cygwin 1.3.20?? (a problem with permissions?)
- From: "Elfyn McBratney" <elfyn-cygwin at exposure dot org dot uk>
- To: "cygwin" <cygwin at cygwin dot com>,"Javier" <fjpp at softhome dot net>
- Date: Tue, 11 Feb 2003 21:49:26 -0000
- Subject: Re: Fortune 1.8.2 broken after upgrading to Cygwin 1.3.20?? (a problem with permissions?)
- References: <b2bp3o$968$1@main.gmane.org>
- Reply-to: "Elfyn McBratney" <cygwin at cygwin dot com>
> but the contents of the dir haven't changed:
>
> total 3604
> drwx------+ 2 Administ Ninguno 4096 Feb 11 21:58 ./
> drwx------+ 29 Administ Ninguno 4096 Feb 11 21:58 ../
> - -rwx------+ 1 Administ Ninguno 582159 Jan 30 2002 fortunes*
> - -rwx------+ 1 Administ Ninguno 72748 Jan 30 2002 fortunes-o*
> - -rwx------+ 1 Administ Ninguno 1596 Jan 30 2002
> fortunes-o.dat*
> - -rwx------+ 1 Administ Ninguno 14200 Jan 30 2002 fortunes.dat*
> - -rwx------+ 1 Administ Ninguno 2062443 Jan 30 2002 fortunes2*
> - -rwx------+ 1 Administ Ninguno 637671 Jan 30 2002 fortunes2-o*
> - -rwx------+ 1 Administ Ninguno 9576 Jan 30 2002
> fortunes2-o.dat*
> - -rwx------+ 1 Administ Ninguno 46604 Jan 30 2002 fortunes2.dat*
> - -rwx------+ 1 Administ Ninguno 144798 Jan 30 2002 limerick*
> - -rwx------+ 1 Administ Ninguno 3484 Jan 30 2002 limerick.dat*
> - -rwx------+ 1 Administ Ninguno 19725 Jan 30 2002 linuxcookie*
> - -rwx------+ 1 Administ Ninguno 448 Jan 30 2002
> linuxcookie.dat*
> - -rwx------+ 1 Administ Ninguno 7611 Jan 30 2002 osfortune*
> - -rwx------+ 1 Administ Ninguno 168 Jan 30 2002 osfortune.dat*
> - -rwx------+ 1 Administ Ninguno 27502 Jan 30 2002 startrek*
> - -rwx------+ 1 Administ Ninguno 836 Jan 30 2002 startrek.dat*
> - -rwx------+ 1 Administ Ninguno 38744 Jan 30 2002 zippy*
> - -rwx------+ 1 Administ Ninguno 2224 Jan 30 2002 zippy.dat*
>
> Maybe is a permits probem / thing??
>
> fortune> whoami
> javier
>
> I have reinstalled the software, and I see that the install program has
> given the files over to Administ.Ninguno ("Administrator / None" in
> spanish) ... but I am logged as "Javier" both in Cygwin and under
> windows, and am a member of the Administrators group?!
That'll be the problem then, as only Administrator has permission to r(ead),
w(rite) or (e)x(ecute) the file. If you reset the permissions, so that
either you are the owner or you have permissions to read/and or write if you
need to, on the files fortune should behave normally.
Regards,
Elfyn McBratney
elfyn@exposure.org.uk
www.exposure.org.uk
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