I appreciate the help. It's not clear to me why either mkpasswd or mkgroup in my home directory would cause the effects I and others have been seeing with the latest version of cygwin.
At any rate, here's the results of my ls -al on my home directory. No mkpasswd or mkgroup. -Val $ ls -al total 11492 drwxrwxr-x+ 15 Administ Administ 0 Feb 23 14:33 ./ drwxrwxr-x+ 3 Administ Administ 0 Jan 28 15:40 ../ -rw-rw---- 1 Administ Administ 4518 Feb 21 16:57 .bash_history -rw-r--r-- 1 Val Schm None 596 Feb 20 15:54 .bash_profile -rw-rw-rw- 1 Val Schm None 587 Feb 23 14:33 .bashrc drwxrwxrwx+ 3 Val Schm None 0 Nov 22 13:37 .emacs.d/ -rw-rw-rw- 1 Val Schm None 0 Feb 20 14:39 .gmtcommands -rw-rw-rw- 1 Val Schm None 356 Feb 19 16:27 .inputrc drwxr-xr-x+ 2 Val Schm None 0 Jan 30 10:13 .ncftp/ -rw------- 1 Val Schm None 6061 Feb 23 17:45 .octave_hist -rw-r--r-- 1 Val Schm None 216 Nov 22 13:30 .profile drwxrwx---+ 2 Administ Administ 0 Jan 14 11:10 .ssh/ -rwxrw-rw- 1 Val Schm None 43 Dec 13 11:59 .tunnel* -rw-rw-r-- 1 Val Schm None 664 Jan 20 10:13 .xinitrc drwxrwxrwx+ 4 Val Schm None 0 Jan 20 17:15 hiro/ drwxr-xr-x+ 2 Val Schm None 0 Nov 21 17:42 kermit/ lrwxrwxrwx 1 Val Schm None 191 Dec 13 14:44 mydocs -> /cygdrive/c/Documents and Settings/Val Schmidt/My Documents// drwxrwxrwx+ 6 Val Schm None 0 Feb 23 15:26 octave/ -rwxrwx---+ 2 Administ SYSTEM 4194372 Feb 17 13:26 pfirewall.log* drwxrwxrwx+ 2 Val Schm None 0 Dec 19 15:41 plotscripts/ drwxrwxrwx+ 3 Val Schm None 0 Jan 20 16:26 projects/ drwxrwxr-x+ 6 Administ Administ 0 Jan 28 15:13 rsync-scripts/ -rwxrwxr-x 1 Administ Administ 504 Oct 15 10:55 ssh.exe.stackdump* -rw-rw-rw- 1 Val Schm None 2202 Dec 12 13:31 sshd-cygwin -rw-rw-rw- 1 Val Schm None 1982 Dec 12 13:18 sshd-cygwin~ drwxrwsr-x+ 4 Val Schm None 0 Feb 17 11:24 testing/ drwxrwxrwx+ 2 Val Schm None 0 Feb 23 18:03 tmp/ drwxrwxrwx+ 2 Val Schm None 0 Feb 3 17:09 tunnel_scripts/ drwxrwxrwx+ 2 Val Schm None 0 Feb 3 16:34 unison-scripts/ -rw-rw-rw- 1 Val Schm None 102 Feb 5 13:48 unison.cmd -rw-r--r-- 1 Val Schm None 7546969 Feb 17 15:20 waas.d226 ________________________________________________ Val Schmidt Lamont Doherty Earth Observatory of Columbia University 61 Route 9W Palisades, NY 10964 m: 614 286 3726 > -----Original Message----- > From: Elfyn McBratney [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Saturday, February 22, 2003 12:20 PM > To: cygwin; Val Schmidt > Subject: Re: Re: upgrading broke cygwin? > > > I upgraded to the 1.3.20-1 version dll today and saw very similar and > > strange behavior. Some things wouldn't execute due to permissions > errors, > > and other would execute from commandline but not from a script. What > causes > > this, I don't know. > > > > I ran setup.exe again, found the "base" cygwin install, cycled through > the > > keep/uninstall/revert until 1.9-19 version came up, and installed the > older > > version. Everything seems to be working fine now. > > > > I wish I could help with what's broke, but I don't have a clue. > > > > There's a recent remark in the list that's there's no way to uninstall - > the > > procedure above seems to work just fine. > > What is the output of `ls -al /path/to/your/homedir' . I'm thinking that > it > will contain eother mkpasswd or mkgroup. > > > Regards, > > Elfyn McBratney > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > www.exposure.org.uk -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Bug reporting: http://cygwin.com/bugs.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/