beginner's questions
Hi, 1) I want to know if some software is installed in my cygwin. whereis and urpmi does not work. So how can i do this? 2) No login is required before connection. Am i root by default? If there is a tutorial answering this kind of questions please let me know. Thank you __ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com -- 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/
RE: beginner's questions
Original Message From: community help Sent: 26 April 2005 12:21 Hi, 1) I want to know if some software is installed in my cygwin. whereis and urpmi does not work. So how can i do this? To find if any cygwin package contains a particular program, go to http://cygwin.com/packages and enter the program name into the search function. I don't know what whereis and urpmi are, but the zsh package seems to contain functions by those names, so maybe you need to install and run zsh? 2) No login is required before connection. Am i root by default? As long as you have setup your /etc/passwd and /etc/group files by running mkgroup and mkpasswd, you will be logged in as whatever windows username you logged into windows with. If that user has admin rights, you will be effectively root in cygwin. If there is a tutorial answering this kind of questions please let me know. You should certainly read all the documentation there is: http://cygwin.com/docs.html In particular the user guide is very helpful, even though it's not exactly a tutorial. http://cygwin.com/cygwin-ug-net/ cheers, DaveK -- Can't think of a witty .sigline today -- 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/
Re: beginner's questions
1) I want to know if some software is installed in my cygwin. whereis and urpmi does not work. So how can i do this? 2) No login is required before connection. Am i root by default? 1) urpmi is a specifc wrapper on rpm that is used in Mandriva (formerly Mandrake) Linux systems. Since Windows is not Linux and not Mandriva, urpmi is not present. whereis (and many others) is provided by the util-linux rpm on Mandrake. Again, since CygWin is not Linux, this command is not included 2) You are not root but are the Windows user that you logged in as (On Win 9x, there is no user) Again since this is not Linux root can be moot (can be mapped to the Windows Administrator account), -- 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/
