On Tue, Jan 31, 2012 at 00:58, Corinna Vinschen wrote: > On Jan 30 22:39, Kenneth Wolcott wrote: >> Hi; >> >> mkpasswd -l /etc/passwd and mkgroup -l /etc/group results: [1722]: The >> RPC server is unavailable > > The User's Guide may help: > > http://cygwin.com/cygwin-ug-net/using-utils.html#mkgroup > http://cygwin.com/cygwin-ug-net/using-utils.html#mkpasswd > > Try `mkpasswd -l > /etc/passwd'. Otherwise /etc/passwd is treated as > argument to the -l option. > >> Is this a result of Cygwin not being formally supported for 64-bit WIndows? > > Who on earth told you that? See http://cygwin.com/ > > > Corinna >
Oh my! :-) My vision is really getting bad! I did not see that I missed the redirection. Thank you for the gentle correction; it works fine now. Sorry for the noise. Ken -- 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
