Brian Tilley wrote:
> Indeed MSys does not have sudo.
> The MSys installation tree is Owned entirely by the installer and as my
> account has Admin rights everything should work.
>
> Just for luck, I Used the Vista Explorer to give write access to anyone to
> the entire MSys directory tree and the install utility still won't work.
>
> I guess I'll have to do a manual install, as everything else seems fine.
If you can't even run the 'install' program from the command line,
then I think it would be worth while to take it up with the msys
maintainers (newsgroup, etc) to see if they can tell you what
the problem is with the executable.
Is the /bin/install program an exe file, or some other kind of
executable? Does 'ls -la /bin/install*' show it to have the correct
execute perms? If not, try 'chmod 755 /bin/install', assuming msys
supports some kind of unix-y permissions system.
You might also check from DOS with 'cacls' to see if the perms
are open for /reading/, since an executable needs that to run,
not write access.
So try:
cacls \path\to\install
..to see what the ACLs are currently, and then maybe try using
/E /C /G flags to adjust the ACLs to ensure everyone has read
access. To give 'everyone' full access, you can use:
cacls \path\to\install /e /c /g everyone:f
Run that as administrator.
Note that unlike unix, under windows even administrator can
be restricted from read/write permission, based on the ACLs.
But at least admin can (almost always) change the perms.
I've seen only a few situations where even as administrator
I couldn't use cacls to change perms.. had to go into safe mode
or something.
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