On Thu, 19 Jul 2018 12:19:10 -0700 Gary Johnson wrote: > 2018/07/19 11:54:24 running: C:\cygwin\bin\bash.exe --norc --noprofile > "/etc/postinstall/inetutils-server.sh" > *** Warning: The permissions on the directory /var are not correct. > *** Warning: They must match the regexp d..x..x..[xt] > *** ERROR: Problem with /var directory. Exiting. > *** Warning: The permissions on the directory /var are not correct. > *** Warning: They must match the regexp d..x..x..[xt] > *** ERROR: Problem with /var directory. Exiting. ... > I've never had problems like this before. I had exited all Cygwin > programs before running setup. I normally run cron, but I stopped > that, and ssh-agent, but I killed that. I checked the permissions > on /var, and while they don't match the regexp d..x..x..[xt], > I didn't create that directory and setup has never reported any > issues with it before.
/etc/postinstall/inetutils-server.sh has not been changed. Therefore installing previous version (1.9.1-2) should cause same error. > $ ls -ld /var > drwxrwx---+ 1 Administrators Domain Users 0 Jul 19 03:57 /var Please chmod /var directory to match regexp d..x..x..[xt] for example: chmod 755 /var -- Takashi Yano <takashi.y...@nifty.ne.jp> -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple
