Re: hexedit install flub...now shell seems rudimentary

2012-02-20 Thread Earnie Boyd
On Mon, Feb 20, 2012 at 2:20 PM, Adrian Sandstrom wrote: > I'm inexperienced with Cygwin. I was hoping to elicit advice, and use > them as snippets of mentoring. Not advice like RTFM, but to read the > types of insight gained from actual experience. I asked because I can > tell they've BTDT. > > >

Re: hexedit install flub...now shell seems rudimentary

2012-02-20 Thread Adrian Sandstrom
I'm inexperienced with Cygwin. I was hoping to elicit advice, and use them as snippets of mentoring. Not advice like RTFM, but to read the types of insight gained from actual experience. I asked because I can tell they've BTDT. On Mon, Feb 20, 2012 at 12:55 AM, Csaba Raduly wrote: > On Mon, Feb

Re: hexedit install flub...now shell seems rudimentary

2012-02-20 Thread Csaba Raduly
On Mon, Feb 20, 2012 at 2:39 AM, Adrian Sandstrom wrote: > That fixed it. That was a really good idea. How did you guys know the > problem was a permissions issue? Because (they, not me) http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/BTDTGTTS > > On Sun, Feb 19, 2012 at 7:59 AM, Ken Brown wrote: >> [Please don'

Re: hexedit install flub...now shell seems rudimentary

2012-02-19 Thread Adrian Sandstrom
That fixed it. That was a really good idea. How did you guys know the problem was a permissions issue? On Sun, Feb 19, 2012 at 7:59 AM, Ken Brown wrote: > [Please don't top post.] > > > On 2/18/2012 3:53 PM, Adrian Sandstrom wrote: >> >> I didn't have /etc/profile so I copied /etc/default/etc/pro

Re: hexedit install flub...now shell seems rudimentary

2012-02-19 Thread Ken Brown
[Please don't top post.] On 2/18/2012 3:53 PM, Adrian Sandstrom wrote: I didn't have /etc/profile so I copied /etc/default/etc/profile to /etc/profile. Aside from /etc/profile, I don't have any of the other files that David mentions, but do have the profile.d directory. Here are the permissions

Re: hexedit install flub...now shell seems rudimentary

2012-02-18 Thread Adrian Sandstrom
I didn't have /etc/profile so I copied /etc/default/etc/profile to /etc/profile. Aside from /etc/profile, I don't have any of the other files that David mentions, but do have the profile.d directory. Here are the permissions of all related files mentioned: bash-4.1$ ls -l profile* -rw-r- 1 a

Re: hexedit install flub...now shell seems rudimentary

2012-02-18 Thread David Sastre Medina
On Sat, Feb 18, 2012 at 07:25:37AM -0500, Ken Brown wrote: > On 2/18/2012 4:20 AM, Adrian Sandstrom wrote: > >Would love if someone could help me get me back to my cozy Cygwin terminal. > > > >Problem: > >When I use the cygwin shortcuts to cygwin.bat or mintty.exe I am > >getting a basic terminal.

Re: hexedit install flub...now shell seems rudimentary

2012-02-18 Thread Ken Brown
On 2/18/2012 4:20 AM, Adrian Sandstrom wrote: Would love if someone could help me get me back to my cozy Cygwin terminal. Problem: When I use the cygwin shortcuts to cygwin.bat or mintty.exe I am getting a basic terminal. 1) The command prompt displays "-bash-4.1$" instead of "username@directory