On 2018-07-20, Takashi Yano wrote: > 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.
I reverted to 1.9.1-2 and got the same error, as you expected. > > $ 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 I executed $ chmod 755 /var and installed 1.9.4-1 again. No error this time. I have no explanation for how the permissions on /var might have gotten changed unless it happened during the Windows update. Regards, Gary -- 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