Art, Replies inline below:
On Tue, 25 Mar 2003, Arthur I Schwarz wrote: > How do I reinstall /etc/passwd & /etc/group to it's initial state? In a fit > of efficiency I deleted some entries in both files to find out (later) that > they apparently allow correct display of GID and UID for system files. Is > there any way to recover the original other than deleting Cygwin and > starting afresh? (I did try a reinstall with no applications without > success.) FYI, once /etc/passwd and /etc/group exist, they will not be automatically recreated by setup. You can always recreate the default /etc/passwd by running "mkpasswd" with the appropriate switches (ditto for /etc/group and "mkgroup"). To see the default switches, look at /etc/postinstall/passwd-group.sh.done (this is the script that created your /etc/passwd and /etc/group in the first place). If you have edited your files heavily, you can rename them to /etc/passwd.bak (and /etc/group.bak), re-run /etc/postinstall/passwd-group.sh.done to recreate them, and then merge your edits into the newly created copies. This should suffice unless you're a domain user. For more details, take a look at <http://cygwin.com/cygwin-ug-net/ntsec.html> > I have noticed for some time that 'cygintl-1.dll' seems to be missing. I > correct the problem by copying 'cygintl-2.dll' to 'cygintl-1.dll'. Am I > missing something? > art Yes. According to the package search page at <http://cygwin.com/packages/>, cygintl-1.dll is part of the "libintl1" package, and cygintl-2.dll is part of the "libintl2" package. It makes sense to assume these aren't the same DLL, so copying probably wasn't a wise decision. Simply install "libintl1" using setup.exe. Igor -- http://cs.nyu.edu/~pechtcha/ |\ _,,,---,,_ [EMAIL PROTECTED] ZZZzz /,`.-'`' -. ;-;;,_ [EMAIL PROTECTED] |,4- ) )-,_. ,\ ( `'-' Igor Pechtchanski '---''(_/--' `-'\_) fL a.k.a JaguaR-R-R-r-r-r-.-.-. Meow! Oh, boy, virtual memory! Now I'm gonna make myself a really *big* RAMdisk! -- /usr/games/fortune -- 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/
