On Fri, Mar 11, 2005 at 01:28:05PM +, Owen Rees wrote:
>--On 10 March 2005 20:14 + John Morrison (Cygwin) wrote:
>>Basically adding your user (using the domain flag if appropriate) to
>>the passwd and group files which is what the message attempts to help
>>the user to do. It appears (judg
--On 10 March 2005 20:14 + John Morrison (Cygwin) wrote:
Basically adding your user (using the domain flag if
appropriate) to the passwd and group files which is
what the message attempts to help the user to do. It
appears (judging from the number of times this
question isn't now appearing on
--- "John Morrison (Cygwin)" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
wrote:
> Hi Matthew,
>
> Although the message is from base-files the reason
> is due to installation.
OK...
> In my experience this only
> occurs when installing for a domain user although
> others have reported other reasons for it.
'Domain'?
Hi Matthew,
Although the message is from base-files the reason is
due to installation. In my experience this only
occurs when installing for a domain user although
others have reported other reasons for it.
For me, the message occurs because the base-passwd
(which I also maintain) doesn't and (f
Hi, John-
Since I myself have no idea why it is outputting that
message, no I cannot suggest a better message. And I
notice that when I did a fresh installation of cygwin
and cygwin/x on a brand new system yesterday, now I am
getting that message too. Do _you_ have any idea why
fresh installations
As maintainer of the package which outputs that message I'm
always glad to hear of ways to improve it. Can you suggest
a better message?
J.
> -Original Message-
> From: Matthew Johnson
>
> Well, Phil, I read what she posted, and I do NOT think
> it tells "all Banibrata needs to know".
Well, Phil, I read what she posted, and I do NOT think
it tells "all Banibrata needs to know".
The big unanswered question that is probably still
bothering Banibrata is, "how on earth did the group
get to be 'mkpasswd' in the first place?" I very much
doubt that Banibrata set it to that. And I hav
On Wednesday, February 23, 2005 6:23 PM, Banibrata Dutta wrote:
> Could anybody explain the following behaviour or Cygwin and "startx"
> in Cygwin...
>
>
>
> Your group is currently "mkpasswd". This indicates that
> the /etc/passwd (and possibly /etc/group) files should be rebuilt.
> See the man
On Wed, 23 Feb 2005, Banibrata Dutta wrote:
> I had installed Cygwin as "Administrator" for this machine, and I am
> able to successfully run X by doing cygwin terminal when I am logged
> in as "Administrator", but when I am logged in as "dutta" the above
> behaviour is what I see. Could someone p
