From: "Larry Hall (Cygwin)" <reply-to-list-only-lh@cygwin.com>
To: cygwin@cygwin.com
Subject: Re: best way to re-install and keep cygwin configuration
Date: Thu, 12 Jul 2012 21:42:00 -0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <4FFF44BD.1090507@cygwin.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4FFF3BDE.2070500@molconn.com>
On 7/12/2012 5:04 PM, LMH wrote:
> If you do the old standard,
>
> mkpasswd -l > /etc/passwd
> mkgroup -l > /etc/group
>
> will that take care of it, or would I need to delete what is in those
> directories now first?
For these files, your above recipe will work.
> The location of the cygwin directory will be the same. Is there a list of
> the windows registry entries for cygwin? I will not want to re-import the
> entire regisrry, so it would be nice to be able to make up a little batch
> file that would just insert the entries related to cygwin.
As the FAQ that I pointed to said, there's nothing in the registry Cygwin
needs to work.
--
Larry
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A: Yes.
> Q: Are you sure?
>> A: Because it reverses the logical flow of conversation.
>>> Q: Why is top posting annoying in email?
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2012-07-12 21:42 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 13+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2012-07-12 18:08 LMH
2012-07-12 20:10 ` Earnie Boyd
2012-07-12 20:28 ` Larry Hall (Cygwin)
2012-07-12 20:31 ` Earnie Boyd
2012-07-12 20:39 ` Larry Hall (Cygwin)
2012-07-12 20:44 ` K Stahl
2012-07-12 21:04 ` LMH
2012-07-12 21:42 ` Larry Hall (Cygwin) [this message]
2012-07-13 1:20 ` Andrey Repin
2012-07-13 2:14 ` LMH
2012-07-13 5:53 ` Mark Geisert
2012-07-13 15:59 ` James Johnston
2012-07-13 15:32 ` ping
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