Re: hexedit install flub...now shell seems rudimentary

2012-02-20 Thread Csaba Raduly
On Mon, Feb 20, 2012 at 2:39 AM, Adrian Sandstrom wrote: That fixed it. That was a really good idea. How did you guys know the problem was a permissions issue? Because (they, not me) http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/BTDTGTTS On Sun, Feb 19, 2012 at 7:59 AM, Ken Brown wrote: [Please don't top

Re: hexedit install flub...now shell seems rudimentary

2012-02-20 Thread Adrian Sandstrom
I'm inexperienced with Cygwin. I was hoping to elicit advice, and use them as snippets of mentoring. Not advice like RTFM, but to read the types of insight gained from actual experience. I asked because I can tell they've BTDT. On Mon, Feb 20, 2012 at 12:55 AM, Csaba Raduly rcs...@gmail.com

Re: hexedit install flub...now shell seems rudimentary

2012-02-20 Thread Earnie Boyd
On Mon, Feb 20, 2012 at 2:20 PM, Adrian Sandstrom wrote: I'm inexperienced with Cygwin. I was hoping to elicit advice, and use them as snippets of mentoring. Not advice like RTFM, but to read the types of insight gained from actual experience. I asked because I can tell they've BTDT. On

Re: hexedit install flub...now shell seems rudimentary

2012-02-19 Thread Ken Brown
[Please don't top post.] On 2/18/2012 3:53 PM, Adrian Sandstrom wrote: I didn't have /etc/profile so I copied /etc/default/etc/profile to /etc/profile. Aside from /etc/profile, I don't have any of the other files that David mentions, but do have the profile.d directory. Here are the

Re: hexedit install flub...now shell seems rudimentary

2012-02-19 Thread Adrian Sandstrom
That fixed it. That was a really good idea. How did you guys know the problem was a permissions issue? On Sun, Feb 19, 2012 at 7:59 AM, Ken Brown kbr...@cornell.edu wrote: [Please don't top post.] On 2/18/2012 3:53 PM, Adrian Sandstrom wrote: I didn't have /etc/profile so I copied

hexedit install flub...now shell seems rudimentary

2012-02-18 Thread Adrian Sandstrom
Would love if someone could help me get me back to my cozy Cygwin terminal. Problem: When I use the cygwin shortcuts to cygwin.bat or mintty.exe I am getting a basic terminal. 1) The command prompt displays -bash-4.1$ instead of username@directory like before. 2) The command prompt is black and

Re: hexedit install flub...now shell seems rudimentary

2012-02-18 Thread Ken Brown
On 2/18/2012 4:20 AM, Adrian Sandstrom wrote: Would love if someone could help me get me back to my cozy Cygwin terminal. Problem: When I use the cygwin shortcuts to cygwin.bat or mintty.exe I am getting a basic terminal. 1) The command prompt displays -bash-4.1$ instead of username@directory

Re: hexedit install flub...now shell seems rudimentary

2012-02-18 Thread David Sastre Medina
On Sat, Feb 18, 2012 at 07:25:37AM -0500, Ken Brown wrote: On 2/18/2012 4:20 AM, Adrian Sandstrom wrote: Would love if someone could help me get me back to my cozy Cygwin terminal. Problem: When I use the cygwin shortcuts to cygwin.bat or mintty.exe I am getting a basic terminal. 1) The

Re: hexedit install flub...now shell seems rudimentary

2012-02-18 Thread Adrian Sandstrom
I didn't have /etc/profile so I copied /etc/default/etc/profile to /etc/profile. Aside from /etc/profile, I don't have any of the other files that David mentions, but do have the profile.d directory. Here are the permissions of all related files mentioned: bash-4.1$ ls -l profile* -rw-r- 1