X-Recipient: archive-cygwin@delorie.com X-SWARE-Spam-Status: No, hits=1.5 required=5.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_00,DKIM_SIGNED,DKIM_VALID,DKIM_VALID_AU,FREEMAIL_FROM,RCVD_IN_DNSWL_LOW,T_TO_NO_BRKTS_FREEMAIL X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <4D90E075.1030106@cygwin.com> References: <4D90E075.1030106@cygwin.com> From: world peace Date: Mon, 28 Mar 2011 16:22:47 -0400 Message-ID: Subject: Re: Root Privileges related To: cygwin@cygwin.com Cc: "Larry Hall (Cygwin)" Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 X-IsSubscribed: yes Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Id: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin@cygwin.com Hi Larry, Thank you for your interest in my question first of all. When i try to do make or make install, the installer tries to write files to a location where I do not have permission and so it reports error and exits. When i check for permissions using ls -l, all the files and folders have nothing but blanks. ----------+ 1 Lab None 1057390384 Feb 15 20:58 test1.txt ----------+ 1 Lab None 300573141 Feb 15 21:58 test2.txt ----------+ 1 Lab None 645853504 Feb 15 22:09 test3.txt d---------+ 1 Lab None 0 Mar 23 14:21 ../ d---------+ 1 Lab None 0 Mar 28 15:44 ./ In this example, "Lab" is my windows username. Please see if it helps at all to understand this situation and any possible solution for me. Also thanks to Greg Chicares for responding, unfortunately I don't know enough about cygwin to know what he is hinting towards. Good Wishes, Paul -- 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