Greetings, Eliot Moss! > Dear cygwiners --
> For a long time I _had_ things working, but somehow in switching over to using > cygwin64 as primary, I messed up permissions on the directories where a backup > program (EaseUS) puts things. I made the permissions similar to elsewhere in > by cygwin hierarchy, but I still cannot chown, chgrp, or chmod files created > by the backup tool - but doing so used to work! For things outside Cygwin root, I strongly suggest "noacl" option. > So ... why can't I chown, etc., the pbd file, and what needs to change for me > to be able to do so? (I _do_ mostly understand this stuff, but maybe I'm > just too tired and just can;t see the obvious!) Then you won't even need to chown or chmod, except in dire circumstances, where some careless program forcibly set permissions to something like 0750. -- With best regards, Andrey Repin Saturday, December 21, 2019 17:47:07 Sorry for my terrible english... -- 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
