Re: cygwin-1.3.16-1

2002-11-24 Thread Pierre A. Humblet
Fergus, Thanks for the trace. I see what the problem is and will fix it later today. Pierre -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Bug reporting: http://cygwin.com/bugs.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygw

Re: cygwin-1.3.16-1

2002-11-24 Thread fergus
> (i) - define HOME before starting cygwin (in cygwin.bat or autoexec.bat) OK, tried this too as suggested: then started up Cygwin 16-1 but to no useful effect. Still found that I started in / rather than ~ = /home/fergus, and got echo $HOME / rather than echo $HOME /home/fergus as in 15-2. F

Re: cygwin-1.3.16-1

2002-11-24 Thread fergus
> Thanks Fergus, everything looks perfect. > I need some more help: > - is your username under Windows really fergus? No. I manually edit /etc/passwd after a fresh Cygwin install. Otherwise my name and group are both "unknown". Which is fine by me, as (deliberately) I do not have a Windows userna

Re: cygwin-1.3.16-1

2002-11-24 Thread Pierre A. Humblet
At 07:08 AM 11/24/2002 -, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >Thank you. Here is startup location and the information you requested in >cygwin-1.3.15-2: Thanks Fergus, everything looks perfect. I need some more help: - is your username under Windows really fergus? - could you send me the output of "stra

Re: cygwin-1.3.16-1

2002-11-24 Thread Corinna Vinschen
On Sun, Nov 24, 2002 at 07:08:06AM -, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > 1.3.16-1 contains changes to help users with ntsec and less than perfect > > passwd/group, but it now seems to have unexpected side effect for Win98. > > Cygwin does not find your entry in passwd. Is there one starting with your

Re: cygwin-1.3.16-1

2002-11-23 Thread fergus
> 1.3.16-1 contains changes to help users with ntsec and less than perfect > passwd/group, but it now seems to have unexpected side effect for Win98. > Cygwin does not find your entry in passwd. Is there one starting with your > username? > Would you mind sending the output of "id" and your passwd

Re: cygwin-1.3.16-1

2002-11-23 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Sat, Nov 23, 2002 at 07:22:58PM -0500, Pierre A. Humblet wrote: >On Sat, Nov 23, 2002 at 11:50:46PM -, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >> Strange consequence of upgrading from cygwin-1.3.15-2 to 1.3.16-1: instead >> of starting off in ~ with ~/.bash_profile correctly read, now start in / >> with ~/

Re: cygwin-1.3.16-1

2002-11-23 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Sat, Nov 23, 2002 at 11:50:46PM -, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >Strange consequence of upgrading from cygwin-1.3.15-2 to 1.3.16-1: instead >of starting off in ~ with ~/.bash_profile correctly read, now start in / >with ~/.bash_profile not read. Both /etc/group and /etc/passwd are >unaltered. Ho

Re: cygwin-1.3.16-1

2002-11-23 Thread Pierre A. Humblet
On Sat, Nov 23, 2002 at 11:50:46PM -, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Strange consequence of upgrading from cygwin-1.3.15-2 to 1.3.16-1: instead > of starting off in ~ with ~/.bash_profile correctly read, now start in / > with ~/.bash_profile not read. Both /etc/group and /etc/passwd are > unaltered