On Tue, 5 Aug 2003, Igor Pechtchanski wrote: > On Tue, 5 Aug 2003, David Balazic wrote: > > [snip] > > > > Are you logging > > > in as a domain user by any chance? > > Yes. > > > Are your /etc/passwd and /etc/group up > > > to date? > > I don't know. What does it mean "up to date" what must be their content ? > They should have an entry for the user you log in as. Since you installed > as a different user (admin), mkpasswd will not have put in the entry for > the domain user. Try running "x:\cygwin\bin\mkpasswd -u <youruser> -d >> > passwd" from "x:\cygwin\etc".
You may also need to do "x:\cygwin\bin\mkgroup -d >> group" from "x:\cygwin\etc" -- be prepared, it may take a while in large domains. > > > Please run "c:\cygwin\bin\ls.exe -l /bin/ls" from a cmd.exe > > > prompt and post the output. > > > > It is on drive X: > > C:\>x:\cygwin\bin\ls.exe -l /bin/ls > > /usr/bin/ls: /bin/ls: No such file or directory > > Okay, try ".\ls.exe .\ls.exe" from "x:\cygwin\bin"? ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ Oops, make that ".\ls.exe -l .\ls.exe"... Sorry. Igor -- http://cs.nyu.edu/~pechtcha/ |\ _,,,---,,_ [EMAIL PROTECTED] ZZZzz /,`.-'`' -. ;-;;,_ [EMAIL PROTECTED] |,4- ) )-,_. ,\ ( `'-' Igor Pechtchanski, Ph.D. '---''(_/--' `-'\_) fL a.k.a JaguaR-R-R-r-r-r-.-.-. Meow! "I have since come to realize that being between your mentor and his route to the bathroom is a major career booster." -- Patrick Naughton -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/