On Sat, Nov 23, 2002 at 07:22:58PM -0500, Pierre A. Humblet wrote: >On Sat, Nov 23, 2002 at 11:50:46PM -0000, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >> Strange consequence of upgrading from cygwin-1.3.15-2 to 1.3.16-1: instead >> of starting off in ~ with ~/.bash_profile correctly read, now start in / >> with ~/.bash_profile not read. Both /etc/group and /etc/passwd are >> unaltered. However Cygwin now seems to know my username but not my group, >> which is now "unknown". I'm using W98/SE. Alternating between 1.3.15-2 and >> 1.3.16-1 means the phenomenon described comes and goes. Full install. All >> other provision upgraded to latest available version incl. bash-2.05b-8. >> Just letting you know. Possibly user error. Thanks anyway. Fergus > >1.3.16-1 contains changes to help users with ntsec and less than perfect >passwd/group, but it now seems to have unexpected side effect for Win98. >Cygwin does not find your entry in passwd. Is there one starting with your >username? >Would you mind sending the output of "id" and your passwd file?
Or maybe not... cgf -- 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/
