Hello, Here is my (interested) contribution to the "can't open /etc" message.
I came to the conclusion (from my own experiments and from what I read on this forum) that the problem has to do with the fact that the /etc directory is on a remote server. When I mount /etc locally (like "mount c:/etc /etc"), the message disappears but of course I have no access to the real /etc (a solution could be to copy with dos commands the real /etc to the local copy...) When I mount explicitely /etc to the cygwin path (like "mount t:/cygwin/1.3/etc /etc"), the message remains the same but I have access to /etc. More interesting: if I give to mount a "cygdrive" path (like "mount /cygdrive/t/cygwin/1.3/etc /etc"), the message disappears. Unfortunately /etc is no longer available after that ("ls /etc" results in "No such file or directory"). HTH to fix the bug. -- Best regards Michel D'HOOGE -- 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/