Robert Collins <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Wed, 2004-02-04 at 10:37, Robert R Schneck-McConnell wrote: >> For reasons which are now obscure to me, I had set up an NTFS junction >> point from /var (c:\cygwin\var) to some other partition. Could have >> done it with mount, but I didn't. >> >> Just today after running setup.exe and getting cygwin-1.5.7-1 and a few >> other things, I found that /var was now an ordinary directory with >> the only contents the subdirectory cache (with empty subdirectory man) >> and the subdirectory log (with setup.log and setup.log.full). > > cygcheck isn't useful. The full setup log might be useful, but I rather > doubt it.
In fact you are correct. setup.log.full contains: 2004/02/03 22:59:17 Uninstalling man ... rmdir C:\cygwin/var/cache/man rmdir C:\cygwin/var/cache rmdir C:\cygwin/var Indeed, calling rmdir on a junction point will remove it, I suppose since there's an empty placeholder which gets removed. > Short answer is: 'don't do that'. Reasonably good advice. But it's possible that this should be considered a bug: uninstalling man shouldn't even try to get rid of var, perhaps? Robert -- 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/