On Mon, 15 Nov 2004, Donovan Baarda wrote: > On Mon, 2004-11-15 at 15:36, Christopher Faylor wrote: > > On Mon, Nov 15, 2004 at 10:47:16AM +1100, Donovan Baarda wrote: > > >I don't understand why the execute bits would not be set. > > > > Remote shares are assumed to be non-executable by default for speed > > considerations. > > > > You can fix this by mounting the share with the -x option: > > > > mount -x -f //foo/bar /bar > > > > Mounting the share in that manner will cause cygwin (and setup > > postinstall scripts) to consider everything in /bar to be consdired > > executable. It might be better to mount any specific directories that > > you know will contain executable content with -x: > > > > mount -x -f //foo/c/cygwin/bin /bin > > mount -x -f //foo/c/cygwin/sbin /sbin > > mount -x -f //foo/c/cygwin/usr/sbin /usr/sbin > > How do you tell this to setup.exe on a fresh install?
Try experimenting with "smbntsec" and "nosmbntsec" in your CYGWIN environment variable. You'll have to set it before starting setup.exe for it to be inherited by the postinstall scripts. See <http://cygwin.com/cygwin-ug-net/using-cygwinenv.html> for details. Igor -- http://cs.nyu.edu/~pechtcha/ |\ _,,,---,,_ [EMAIL PROTECTED] ZZZzz /,`.-'`' -. ;-;;,_ [EMAIL PROTECTED] |,4- ) )-,_. ,\ ( `'-' Igor Pechtchanski, Ph.D. '---''(_/--' `-'\_) fL a.k.a JaguaR-R-R-r-r-r-.-.-. Meow! "The Sun will pass between the Earth and the Moon tonight for a total Lunar eclipse..." -- WCBS Radio Newsbrief, Oct 27 2004, 12:01 pm EDT -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/
