Sorry about the disconnect from the world on my PC, it can't be helped or changed.
I looked in the /var/log/setup.log.full file and found a few warnings having to do with permissions. It is complaining about the /etc/passwd and /etc/group file not being readable by all. All the scripts in the /etc/postinstall directory have a .done suffix The setup.exe file used was the same one used to download the files for the install. -Kevin -----Original Message----- From: cygwin-ow...@cygwin.com [mailto:cygwin-ow...@cygwin.com] On Behalf Of Larry Hall (Cygwin) Sent: Friday, March 12, 2010 11:31 AM To: cygwin@cygwin.com Subject: Re: missing paths On 3/12/2010 1:57 PM, Roe, Kevin L. wrote: > First off, I cannot run cygcheck and give you the results. My machine is > completely disconnected from the internet and has no external write > capability. I think it goes without saying that this is an impediment to solving this problem. But I'll resort to some WAGs for now. > After installation, I launched the rxvt BASH shell. > > The shell came up in the wrong directory (/usr/bin), but upon the “cd” > command, went to the appropriate location declared in the /etc/passwd file. > > At that point, I tried running a simple command, ssh. The system said > “bash: ssh: command not found” Presumably you did install the OpenSSH package. This is, of course, the only way the above message wouldn't be valid. > So, I did an echo of $PATH. The result was missing all the cygwin paths > (/usr, /bin, …), but included windows paths: (if you were wondering about > the statement at the top, this was typed in manually) > > I don’t understand why the path is missing, any guidance on how to fix > the problem would be appreciated. Possibly a bad install. Take a look at your setup.log* files and see if there are any complaints in them. My guess is that at least some of the postinstall scripts didn't run. If that is indeed the case, you can try rerunnung them with 'setup.exe' by just running it again. If that doesn't work, you can go to the '/etc/postinstall' directory and rerun all the scripts that are there (if there are any without the ".done" suffix, try running those first). Also, it's very important that you're installing the latest packages with the latest 'setup.exe'. The latter is even more important than the former. -- Larry Hall http://*www.*rfk.com RFK Partners, Inc. (508) 893-9779 - RFK Office 216 Dalton Rd. (508) 893-9889 - FAX Holliston, MA 01746 _____________________________________________________________________ A: Yes. > Q: Are you sure? >> A: Because it reverses the logical flow of conversation. >>> Q: Why is top posting annoying in email? -- Problem reports: http://*cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://*cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://*cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: http://*cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple
