* Kermit Tensmeyer (Sun, 21 Dec 2008 18:56:23 -0600)> > On Sun, Dec 21, 2008 at 6:21 PM, Eric Blake <e...@byu.net> wrote: > > According to Kermit Tensmeyer on 12/21/2008 5:15 PM: > >> > >> today sed.exe is missing -and- /usr/local/bin is empty. ssed.exe is > >> still there. > >> > >> + how does the directory structure get setup? (is /usr/local/bin > >> being recreated from somewhere else? > > > > The default mount setup sets up /usr/local/bin as a mount to /usr/bin. > > I was aware that /bin is also mounted as /usr/bin, I had thought the > /usr/local was a seperate directory such that /usr/local/bin and > /usr/local/sbin were separate from the root based directories.
That's correct. Eric made a mistake. > and that's why I'm asking for the documentation. I don't need/want > you to solve a problem that apparently only I have. You already mentioned that yourself. If you start bash then the documentation is the man page of your shell (especially the FILES section). Cygwin itself doesn't have a startup sequence because it doesn't "start". Thorsten -- 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/