Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@cygwin.com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin@cygwin.com Message-ID: <63A6C537769693488EF351F5DB9466863D8731@cyglew04.cygnetinc.com> From: Tim Michals To: Cc: "'cygwin@cygwin.com'" Subject: Setting cygwin for the first time (newbie) question with CYGWIN=n tsec Date: Thu, 3 Jan 2002 14:30:53 -0600 MIME-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Internet Mail Service (5.5.2653.19) Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" All, Installed cygwin from the net today, and set in the include file CYGWIN=ntsec, ran mkpasswd -l -g > passwd and mkgroup -l > group in the /etc directory. The issue, still cannot create directories. for example in /home/Administrator perform the following commands: Administrator@T~ $ mkdir eCOS mkdir: cannot create directory `eCOS': Permission denied Administrator@T ~ $ ls -lag total 1 drwsrwsrwt 2 1125 None 0 Jan 3 14:16 . drwx------ 3 1125 None 0 Jan 3 14:09 .. -rwx------ 1 1125 None 272 Jan 3 14:19 .bash_history and when using vi get this message E303: Unable to open swap file for "group", recovery impossible "group" 12 lines, 428 characters Hit ENTER or type command to continue What is wrong? -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Bug reporting: http://cygwin.com/bugs.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/