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Re: Hate to say it, but...I've got the (dreadded) PID problem


On Sun, Mar 23, 2003 at 03:33:18AM -0000, Elfyn McBratney wrote:
>> On Sun, Mar 23, 2003 at 02:46:00AM -0000, Elfyn McBratney wrote:
>> >...While fixing the permissions on my
>> >installation (via a combination of `find -exec' and `chmod'), and when I
>say
>> >while I mean pretty much straight away, I started getting tones of
>"Access
>> >is denied" messages from find.
>>
>> If you needed to do the chmod thing then that should be your first line
>> of attack.  Do this from a console window, not running cygwin:
>>
>> cd c:\cygwin
>> chmod -R a+r bin lib sbin usr etc tmp var
>> chmod -R a+x bin sbin usr/sbin usr/local/bin lib/gcc-lib/*.exe
>usr/X11R6/bin
>
>I get "Access is denied".

You get "Access is denied" when not running bash?  Then this obviously
isn't a fork problem.

cgf

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