> From: Pierre A. Humblet > On Wed, Oct 08, 2003 at 04:55:18PM -0400, Boris Mayer-St-Onge wrote: > > > > 2- Is it possible to install a older version of cygwin (we have all the > > file of version 1.3.22-1 except the setup.exe). When we try to install > > cygwin with the setup.exe from the web page and with the files from a > > local directory, we have errors. Is it possible to have an older > > version of setup.exe? > > The message is not produced by cygwin itself but by the /etc/profile > script, which you can easily edit to remove the section of code that > checks the group name. It's just a warning, nothing bad will happen as > long as you don't try to use features (e.g. chown and various services) > that require a complete /etc/passwd. I would recommend doing that rather > than trying to go back in time.
I'd agree with Pierre, but if you ever do fix it without editing /etc/profile, please let me know (via the list) and I'll add the changes to the actual package. J. -- 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/
