From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 13437 invoked by alias); 25 Oct 2003 08:08:59 -0000 Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com Received: (qmail 13430 invoked from network); 25 Oct 2003 08:08:58 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO smtp.web.de) (217.72.192.151) by sources.redhat.com with SMTP; 25 Oct 2003 08:08:58 -0000 Received: from [80.131.90.40] (helo=django) by smtp.web.de with esmtp (WEB.DE 4.99 #459) id 1ADJTl-0008UY-00 for cygwin@cygwin.com; Sat, 25 Oct 2003 10:08:57 +0200 Reply-To: From: "Werner Beck" To: Subject: misc basic installation problems with cygwin Date: Sat, 25 Oct 2003 12:30:00 -0000 Message-ID: <000301c39acf$3dfb8f30$997ba8c0@django> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2800.1165 X-SW-Source: 2003-10/txt/msg01628.txt.bz2 Hi - I've seen this twice now, and I can't find a hint in the FAQ, and searching the newsgroups available to me didn't turn up something that seemed related, so I hope this list is appropriate for asking such questions ... if not, I would appreciate a pointer to "the right thing to do". On WinXP Pro, the installation leaves all file permissions to "---------+". Is that the way it should be - probably not ?? Anyway, nothing worked. After I opened file permissions a little and re-ran the postinstall scripts, some things started working. However, there are still many problems. Like, the terminal type 'cygwin' is unknown. Or, the 'man' command fails with: groff: can't find `DESC' file groff:fatal error: invalid device `ascii' Is there some documentation that I've just not stumbled across that would tell me what I forgot, or did incorrectly ? Thanks, Werner -- 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/