On Wed, 2004-02-04 at 10:37, Robert R Schneck-McConnell wrote: > For reasons which are now obscure to me, I had set up an NTFS junction > point from /var (c:\cygwin\var) to some other partition. Could have > done it with mount, but I didn't. > > Just today after running setup.exe and getting cygwin-1.5.7-1 and a few > other things, I found that /var was now an ordinary directory with > the only contents the subdirectory cache (with empty subdirectory man) > and the subdirectory log (with setup.log and setup.log.full). > Luckily my mail spool et al were still intact at the old junction > target. > > Can anyone divine what happened? Cygcheck output attached, in case > it is useful.
cygcheck isn't useful. The full setup log might be useful, but I rather doubt it. Short answer is: 'don't do that'. Rob -- GPG key available at: <http://www.robertcollins.net/keys.txt>.
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