Reiner, Please read and follow the problem reporting guidelines at <http://cygwin.com/problems.html>, especially the bit about attaching (as an uncompressed text *attachment*) the output of "cygcheck -svr". Igor
On Tue, 30 Sep 2003, BUEHL,REINER (HP-Germany,ex1) wrote: > If I run /etc/postinstall/base-files-mketc.sh.done from bash promt I get > the following error messages: > > /bin/uname: not found > /bin/cygpath: not found > Unknown system type ; exiting > > PATH is set to /bin:/usr/bin and "ls /bin" shows that uname.exe and > cygpath.exe exist there. All files in /etc/postinstall have the .done > extension and base-files package has been installed. Any ideas? > > Best regards, > Reiner. > > > -----Original Message----- > > From: John Morrison [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > > Sent: Tuesday, September 30, 2003 4:52 PM > > To: BUEHL,REINER (HP-Germany,ex1) > > Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > Subject: Re: Files in /etc missing after new install > > > > > > > > From a bash prompt > > /etc/postinstall/base-files-mketc.sh.done > > /etc/postinstall/base-files-profile.sh.done > > > > should create them, if the files don't exist with a .done > > extension then postinstall wasn't called. If they don't > > exist then you didn't install the base-files package. > > > > J. > > > > On Tue, 30 Sep 2003, BUEHL,REINER (HP-Germany,ex1) wrote: > > > > > Hi all, > > > > > > I just installed cygwin (Setup.exe v2.415). The installation went > > > fine, no errors, but all the files that should have been created > > > during the postinstall step are missing. There is no /etc/profile, no > > > /etc/passwd, no /etc/group and so on. Can anybody help me to fix this? > > > I already reinstalled twice... :-( > > > > > > Best regards, > > > Reiner. -- 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/
