On Thu, 2 Aug 2007, Andrew Kruse wrote: > Hi, > > I'm trying to create a new managed mount point and am running into > some problems. > > The exact command I am running: (after successfully creating both > /usr/.managed/portage and /usr/portage as myself in the cygwin shell) > mount -o managed `cygpath -m /usr/.managed/portage` /usr/portage > > Results in: > > mount: /usr/portage: Permission denied > > attached is the output of cygcheck -svr and also my /etc/passwd and > /etc/group files. I don't know that I have a complete grasp of what > the correct configuration for those files is, but don't understand why > I can create a directory and not subsequently mount it as managed.
Try "mount -f -o managed `cygpath -m /usr/.managed/portage` /usr/portage". HTH, Igor -- http://cs.nyu.edu/~pechtcha/ |\ _,,,---,,_ [EMAIL PROTECTED] | [EMAIL PROTECTED] ZZZzz /,`.-'`' -. ;-;;,_ Igor Peshansky, Ph.D. (name changed!) |,4- ) )-,_. ,\ ( `'-' old name: Igor Pechtchanski '---''(_/--' `-'\_) fL a.k.a JaguaR-R-R-r-r-r-.-.-. Meow! Belief can be manipulated. Only knowledge is dangerous. -- Frank Herbert -- 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/