On Mon, 13 Oct 2003, Benedykt wrote: > I know, I know. I should have read the FAQ and the Documentation. I have. > And yet, a fresh install (yesterday) is not working on windows XP. > It is about /etc/profile that is missing, which results in PATH not being set. > cygwin.bat does not have any PATH set either. > > In the /etc dir I only have /etc/defaults/etc/profile. > Why hasn't it been created in the /etc directory?
It looks like the postinstall script for the base-files package wasn't run correctly... > If I put PATH=c:\cygwin\bin in the cygwin.bat file I can issue commands from the > /usr/bin directory but other environment settings do not work. /home/<username> does > not exist, etc. > > Any hints will be much appreciated > Thank you. > Benedict Please read and follow the Cygwin problem reporting guidelines at <http://cygwin.com/problems.html>, especially the bit about attaching (as an uncompressed text *attachment*) the output of "cygcheck -svr", which will contain some information that would be helpful in diagnosing your problem. 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/
