The file /etc/passwd needs to be properly created.
Type 'man mkpasswd' for better directions than I can give, and search for
mkpasswd in the mailing lists. Also
http://cygwin.com/cygwin-ug-net/using-utils.html
If that doesn't work, change the environment variable PS1 to something less
alarming :
Please do not send me private mail concerning cygwin. These questions
belong on the cygwin mailing list. I've redirected this mail and set
the Reply-To appropriately.
--Chuck
zhlg_shuhan wrote:
> Mr. chales,
> I know to you through cygwin mail list.I am a beginner of cygwin,so many
>p
> However, I do agree that cygwin is pretty well known -- if only as the
> black sheep of the free software family (Imagine! Allowing Gatesians to
> use GNU software. The horror!)
To quote the great Maurice 'Mad Dog' Vachon, "What matters is not necessarily
the size of the dog in the fight, it's
> I don't disagree with your conclusion, Chris, but you're
> using a flawed
> model. So *what* if cygwin is the most popular project on
> sources.redhat?
Just for the record: any number of "unix + windows" related
searches ("bash for windows", "gnu for windows", "unix for
windows", "gcc for w
Christopher Faylor wrote:
>
> You're working from an assumption that cygwin is an unknown project.
> It is currently the most popular project on sources.redhat.com, so I
> don't think it is suffering too badly from lack of awareness.
I don't disagree with your conclusion, Chris, but you're u
> -Original Message-
> From: Michael Smith [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> Sent: Tuesday, May 21, 2002 3:37 PM
> Anyway, though I think just about everybody who's got any familiarity
> with the free software world at all knows that Linux packages (RPMs
> and Debian packages) are availabl
On Tue, May 21, 2002 at 12:37:22AM -0500, Michael Smith wrote:
>I don't what can be done to raise more awareness about Cygwin --
>especially about the availability of packages; but in part, I guess
>that more people should -- when, on mailing lists or websites, they're
>pointing out that certain a
Christopher Faylor <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> [...]
> It's never been a goal of Cygwin to adhere to something like the LSB
> and we already refer to the Single UNIX Specification for reference.
> This is another thing that you could have gleaned from inspection
> of the mailing list archives.
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[2] https://lists.dulug.duke.edu/mailman/listinfo/lsb-xml-sgml
-Original Message-
From: Charles Wilson [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: 17. maj 2002 18:49
To: Michael Smith
Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: name: GNU/Cygwin system
To tell you the truth, I don't see there being much h
Michael Smith wrote:
> I'm not trolling (and maybe for all I know, this has already been
> talked out) but I wanted to suggest that it might be appropriate for
> Cygwin to describe and advertise itself as the "GNU/Cygwin system",
> giving credit where credit it very much due -- just as Debian does
On Fri, May 17, 2002 at 02:51:22AM -0500, Michael Smith wrote:
>>At this point, I've gone offtopic, so I'll just be quite now :}
>
>Yeah, I guess the discussion probably isn't of interest to most people
>on this list, so I'll shut up about it now too.
>
>But if somebody can let me know off-list wh
"Robert Collins" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> > -Original Message-
> > From: Michael Smith [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> >[...]
> >
> > I'm not trolling (and maybe for all I know, this has already
> > been talked out) but I wanted to suggest that it might be
> > appropriate for Cygwin
> -Original Message-
> From: Michael Smith [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> Sent: Friday, May 17, 2002 4:37 PM
> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject: name: GNU/Cygwin system
>
>
> I'm not trolling (and maybe for all I know, this has already
> been talked out) but I wanted to suggest that it m
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