> I've encountered an odd issue where I can't seem to edit anything in > /etc. I've executed 'mkpasswd -l > /etc/passwd' which worked fine. I > then attempted 'vim /etc/passwd', and vim seems to hang with the file > name in quotes in the bottom left corner.
Looks like it's related to some issue reading stdin... I executed vim in debug mode ('vim -D passwd') and got the following: Vim: Error reading input, exiting... Vim: Finished. What's really odd is that this only occurs in /etc. Hope this helps... Chris -- Chris Sutcliffe http://emergedesktop.org -- 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/