On 8 Oct, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> Now to see if I can find where /etc/profile went, and if no joy, try
> again with the modified scripts and new knowledge...
No joy. /etc/profile, passwd, and group were simply missing.
Even doing a grep for /etc/profile in setup.log and .full showed no
errors or warnings that mentioned /etc/profile. (In fact, a grep -i
for warning or error only showed installation of files with that as part
of their name - i.e. it seemed like a clean install).
It seems possible to me that it's something I've done wrong. I'll
scrub Cygwin again from the test machine and try again with my
improved scripts.
The reason I suspect me, is that /etc/passwd didn't exist, even after
running the script that runs the mkpasswd and mgroup commands to fully
populate both.
There is a /etc/defaults/etc/profile, it just doesn't seem to have
been installed. Maybe a side-effect of doing a mount of "/" in the previous
test attempt before this last one.
Anyway, I'll try again now.
BTW, since Dave Korn replied to this:
> > I freely confess I'm doing something unusual. Maybe I'm the first
> > person on the planet to attempt to automate Cygwin installation via a
> > shell script from an already existing and stable copy of Cygwin
> > installed elsewhere on the network?
Dave:
> It's possible. Is there a reason you aren't using setup.exe? It's
> automatable and easily customisable and it has the benefit in this situation
> of being a plain non-cygwin win32 exe.
I should clarify that I *am* using Cygwin's setup.exe - the scripts just
do all the other automation around that:
Advise installer of local URLs for local stable/latest cygwin mirrors.
Report on completeness/incompleteness of local mirror, with
warning if incomplete.
Start appropriate setup.exe for them (stable/latest), with extra arguments.
Fix problem in WindowMaker by modifying "exitscript".
Provide simple, reliable, flexible X startup script.
Detect home mount point for local conventions.
Setup home directory upon 1st login.
Configure sshd.
Check ownership of and fix /etc/ssh* and /var/empty.
Fix enscript.cfg to use A4 for paper size.
Configure ssmtp for local settings.
Install extra local utility files.
Test for updated local utility files and auto-install any.
Setup links to various local network utilities.
Add .sh script under /etc/profile.d for extra local login stuff.
Create some extra desktop shortcuts and Start Menu Cygwin menu items.
Setup default .xinitrc and .profile.
Provide auto-remapping of shared drives when laptops are off network.
Install CygwinPromptHere.
Fix X font problem on stable Cygwin snapshot; fix man JNROFF stuff on
latest Cygwin snapshot.
And possibly other things I've forgotten.
luke
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