/home dir missing

2005-06-02 Thread prashanthu baragur
Hi, Am a newbie to cygwin. Am trying to install cygwin as per the procedure in the web. http://cplus.about.com/od/compilersandides/l/aa061204a.htm After installation i observe that the /home directory is missing. Other that this things are normal. I have logged into my system as a local user

Re: /home dir missing

2005-06-02 Thread Richard Copley
On 02/06/05, prashanthu baragur [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, Am a newbie to cygwin. Am trying to install cygwin as per the procedure in the web. http://cplus.about.com/od/compilersandides/l/aa061204a.htm Wow, seven pages of installation instructions. Couldn't he have just said 'follow the

RE: /home dir missing

2005-06-02 Thread Dave Korn
Original Message From: prashanthu baragur Sent: 02 June 2005 08:06 Hi, Am a newbie to cygwin. Am trying to install cygwin as per the procedure in the web. http://cplus.about.com/od/compilersandides/l/aa061204a.htm After installation i observe that the /home directory is

Re: /home dir missing

2005-06-02 Thread prashanthu baragur
Dave, I did not ran mkpasswd -l -d /etc/passwd and mkgroup -l -d /etc/group Since i did mkdir /home, /home is just like /temp directory. Any care to be taken during cygwin installation ?? Thanks Prashanth On 6/2/05, Dave Korn [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Original Message From:

Re: /home dir missing

2005-06-02 Thread Thorsten Kampe
On Thu, 2 Jun 2005 12:27:45 +, Richard Copley wrote: On 02/06/05, prashanthu baragur [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, Am a newbie to cygwin. Am trying to install cygwin as per the procedure in the web. http://cplus.about.com/od/compilersandides/l/aa061204a.htm Wow, seven pages of