Re: Cygwin Newbie Question

Dave, I am not sure if you got an answer to your Cygwin install question, but here is what I did when I was faced with the same problem a few weeks ago. I was trying a fresh install of version 1.3.22.1 on a WinXP and Win2K machine and noticed that the /home/ directory was not formed as I had seen

Re: Cygwin Newbie Question

> > Even though having /dev is optional isn't the setup program supposed to > > create this and proc? > > I may be wrong (since I've had a cygwin installation a long time and created > them myself), but I don't think so. > > I'm afraid I'm about to leave for the weekend, but hopefully someone else

Re: Cygwin Newbie Question

--- david sarraf <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > passwd file: >david:unused_by_nt/2000/xp:500:513:U-IBM-311IWKNAA4G\david,S-1-5-21-1994407283-2032670471-1942978529-500:/home/david:/bin/bash > > uid=500(shidan) gid=513(None) Well, the above lines together look like a problem to me. I don't know why

Re: Cygwin Newbie Question

d and it seems to work. Even though having /dev is optional isn't the setup program supposed to create this and proc? Dave From: Joshua Daniel Franklin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Cygwin Newbie Question Date: Fri, 28 Mar 2003 13:25:28 -0800 (

Re: Cygwin Newbie Question

ous installations I was able to create the home directory. > And set the variables in bash. > > How would I create the /dev directory and why isnt setup.exe not working > correctly? And why is bash_history in the c drive? > Thanks again, > Dave > > >From: Joshua

Re: Cygwin Newbie Question

and why isnt setup.exe not working correctly? And why is bash_history in the c drive? Thanks again, Dave From: Joshua Daniel Franklin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Cygwin Newbie Question Date: Fri, 28 Mar 2003 12:33:14 -0800 (PST) > C:\cygwin\bin\id.exe output

Re: Cygwin Newbie Question

> C:\cygwin\bin\id.exe output (nontsec) > UID: 400(david) GID: 401(mkpasswd) > 401(mkpasswd) It looks like the your /etc/passwd and/or /etc/group files were not created correctly by the setup.exe postinstall process. Can you describe the process you used to install Cygwin? Oh, and running mkpas

Re: Cygwin Newbie Question

> Here is the output of cygcheck -svr. For this installation, i just added the > directories to windows path and have not created a home directory. Out of curiousity, did you read ? Regards, Elfyn McBratney [EMAIL PROTECTED] www.exposure.org.uk -- Unsubscribe inf

Re: Cygwin Newbie Question

Here is the output of cygcheck -svr. For this installation, i just added the directories to windows path and have not created a home directory. Cygwin Win95/NT Configuration Diagnostics Current System Time: Fri Mar 28 14:21:56 2003 Windows 2000 Professional Ver 5.0 Build 2195 Service Pack 3 Path

Re: Cygwin Newbie Question

On Fri, 28 Mar 2003, david sarraf wrote: > Hi, I have installed Cygwin a few times over the past couple of days. For > some reason, The /home and /dev directory, and the environment variables(eg. > PATH)do not get set up properlly. > > When I use startxwin.bat at least the PATH variable is set up.

Cygwin Newbie Question

Hi, I have installed Cygwin a few times over the past couple of days. For some reason, The /home and /dev directory, and the environment variables(eg. PATH)do not get set up properlly. When I use startxwin.bat at least the PATH variable is set up. Also for some reason the .bash_history file i