Re: no longer administrator, can't mkdir /foo

2003-10-10 Thread Mike Maxwell
Igor Pechtchanski wrote: > Check out /etc/setup/installed.db (and other files in /etc/setup). So that's where the info is stored! Now I guess what I need to do is run a diff on that file between the old and new installs, and find out what packages are missing in the new install. Thanks for the i

Re: no longer administrator, can't mkdir /foo

2003-10-10 Thread Igor Pechtchanski
On Fri, 10 Oct 2003, Mike Maxwell wrote: > This is for anyone else who reads this thread, looking for a solution. > > Mike Maxwell wrote: > > Short of re-installing CygWin, is there a fix to all this mess? > > In the end, that's what I did: a new install. Unfortunately, I haven't > found every pa

Re: no longer administrator, can't mkdir /foo

2003-10-10 Thread Mike Maxwell
This is for anyone else who reads this thread, looking for a solution. Mike Maxwell wrote: > Short of re-installing CygWin, is there a fix to all this mess? In the end, that's what I did: a new install. Unfortunately, I haven't found every package that I had installed previously, so there are t

Re: no longer administrator, can't mkdir /foo

2003-10-02 Thread Mike Maxwell
DePriest, Jason R. wrote: > You may need to get permission to temporarily logon as a local admin > and then change the owner of all of the directories under cygwin. > As almost all of my directories and files seem to be owned by > admins.mkgroup. See if you can change the ownership to the Power Us

Re: no longer administrator, can't mkdir /foo

2003-10-02 Thread Mike Maxwell
Bill McCormick wrote: > Did you run mkpasswd and mkgroup after the user name changes? No, I hadn't; thanks for the suggestion, but I'm still unable to do certain things. I ran mkpasswd -l > /etc/passwd (as suggested by the man page for mkpasswd), and mkgroup -l > /etc/group (also as per t

RE: no longer administrator, can't mkdir /foo

2003-10-02 Thread DePriest, Jason R.
You may need to get permission to temporarily logon as a local admin and then change the owner of all of the directories under cygwin. As almost all of my directories and files seem to be owned by admins.mkgroup. See if you can change the ownership to the Power User group or something else that yo

RE: no longer administrator, can't mkdir /foo

2003-10-02 Thread Bill McCormick
> Short of re-installing CygWin, is there a fix to all this mess? Did you run mkpasswd and mkgroup after the user name changes? -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.h