Following the discussion "Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: vim-7.0.122-1" (http://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/2006-10/msg00411.html...) I have discovered that in /etc there are 4 wrong links (I say that them are 'wrong' because 'ls' shows them in RED instead of CYAN):
hosts -> C:\WINDOWS\system32\drivers\etc\hosts protocols -> C:\WINDOWS\system32\drivers\etc\protocol services -> C:\WINDOWS\system32\drivers\etc\services networks -> C:\WINDOWS\system32\drivers\etc\networks Now, I have the cygdrive prefix mounted to '/', i.e. when I installed Cygwin, I have run mount --change-cygdrive-prefix / so that I can access drives as /c (C:), /a (A:), /d (D:, DVD burner) and /e (E: CD burner). I would ask if it is the case, as workaround, to recreate, manually, those links in the correct way, for example: ln -sf /c/WINDOWS/system32/drivers/etc/hosts hosts ... Thanks, Angelo. -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/