Re: Changing Home Directory

2011-07-24 Thread Andrey Repin
Greetings, ScKaSx! > I just installed Cygwin and found that my home directory is defined by > Windows HOME environment variable. But WHY you need it? Seems counter-intuitive to have two homes? It's not like you could live in both at the same time? > My question is how I can change my cygwin home

Changing Home Directory

2011-07-24 Thread ScKaSx
Hi All, I just installed Cygwin and found that my home directory is defined by Windows HOME environment variable. My question is how I can change my cygwin home directory without changing the Windows HOME variable, in other words to use /etc/mkpasswd? Cheers! -- View this message in context:

[ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: mksh-40b-1

2011-07-24 Thread Chris Sutcliffe
Version 40b-1 of "mksh" has been uploaded. MirBSD Korn Shell (mksh) is an actively developed free implementation of the Korn Shell programming language and a successor to the Public Domain Korn Shell (pdksh). *** CYGWIN-ANNOUNCE UNSUBSCRIBE INFO *** If you want to unsubscribe from the

Re: Important setup.exe bug : -P switch is inefficient ?

2011-07-24 Thread Marco Atzeri
On 22/07/2011 14.08, Vincent Deffontaines wrote: Greetings, I am running Cygwin 1.7.9(0.237/5/3) on top of Windows NT 6.1 (2008 R2). What actually happened is that the installer selected *all* available packages and started installing them. I had to interrupt it, and deselect those numerous pac

Re: Important setup.exe bug : -P switch is inefficient ?

2011-07-24 Thread Linda Walsh
Linda Walsh wrote: >> >> Please correct me if I have made mistakes or misunderstood setup.exe options. >> >> Please keep me in Cc: of any answer, as I am no member of the mailing list. >> >> >> Vincent Deffontaines >> > > You aren't wrong. > > It's broken. --- Didn't mean

Re: I'm confused, ... domain vs. local account mappings (why diffs, how to control mappings?)

2011-07-24 Thread Linda Walsh
Corinna Vinschen wrote: > On Jul 21 21:38, Linda Walsh wrote: >> 1) local user 'law', 'root' and 'guest' are all in '513' >> Sid "S-1-5-21513" is a "well known sid" for 'Domain Users' >> (why it shows up as a group labeled 'non' with my local >> computers id in the computer part, is confusing.

Re: Important setup.exe bug : -P switch is inefficient ?

2011-07-24 Thread Linda Walsh
Vincent Deffontaines wrote: > Greetings, > > I am running Cygwin 1.7.9(0.237/5/3) on top of Windows NT 6.1 (2008 R2). > > I have tried "extending" my cygwin package installation from the command > line, in order to install the vim package. As I have a package mirror in > the "%SystemDrive%\cygwin