For security reasons, I am no longer an administrator on my Win2k machine.
(No, I didn't mess up, there's an issue with passwords or something--a
recent break-in.)
The upshot is that under CygWin, I can't do a mkdir in the / dir (i.e.
/cygdrive/c/cygwin).
$ mkdir foo
mkdir: cannot create directory `foo': No such file or directory
Oddly, a side effect of that seems to be that cygwin no longer sees /tmp;
bash says:
bash.exe: warning: could not find /tmp, please create!
ls / shows it, but ls /tmp does not:
$ ls /
bin cygwin.ico home pkg setup.log tmp var
cygwin.bat etc lib setup.exe setup.log.full usr
$ ls /tmp
ls: /tmp: No such file or directory
I can create a directory in / (i.e. c:/cygwin) from MsWindows, but again,
Cygwin doesn't see it:
$ cmd
Microsoft Windows 2000 [Version 5.00.2195]
(C) Copyright 1985-2000 Microsoft Corp.
C:\cygwin>mkdir tmp
C:\cygwin>exit
$ ls /tmp
ls: /tmp: No such file or directory
Possibly related to all this is the fact that my Windows username has
changed. So Cygwin doesn't seem to know where my (new) ~ is, i.e. it
reports ~ as the local drive's root directory:
$ cd ~
$ pwd
/cygdrive/c
I tried re-naming my old /home/<OldUsername> directory to
/home/<NewUsername>, but that doesn't seem to be sufficient.
Short of re-installing CygWin, is there a fix to all this mess?
--
Mike Maxwell
Linguistic Data Consortium
NomaxwellSpam at ldc dot upenn dot edu
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