PST)
Did running
mkpasswd > /etc/passwd
mkgroup > /etc/group
help? Please do this and then post your /etc/passwd and /etc/group files
and the output of 'id'. I suspect this is the cause of your HOME and .bash*
troubles.
Directories such as /dev are optional. Just use 'mkdir /dev&
The process I used was the following:
Click setup.exe -->
Installation Type=install from internet -->
(Root Directory = c:\cygwin)&&(Install for all users)&&(Default Text
Type=Unix) -->
Local Package Directory =c:\...\Desktop -->
Internet Connection=Direct -->
Download Site=I Forget -->
(View=Cat
Here is the output of cygcheck -svr. For this installation, i just added the
directories to windows path and have not created a home directory.
Cygwin Win95/NT Configuration Diagnostics
Current System Time: Fri Mar 28 14:21:56 2003
Windows 2000 Professional Ver 5.0 Build 2195 Service Pack 3
Path
Hi, I have installed Cygwin a few times over the past couple of days. For
some reason, The /home and /dev directory, and the environment variables(eg.
PATH)do not get set up properlly.
When I use startxwin.bat at least the PATH variable is set up. Also for some
reason the .bash_history file i
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