From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 13754 invoked by alias); 12 Jul 2012 21:42:50 -0000 Received: (qmail 13747 invoked by uid 22791); 12 Jul 2012 21:42:49 -0000 X-SWARE-Spam-Status: No, hits=2.7 required=5.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_00,BOTNET,KHOP_THREADED,RCVD_IN_DNSWL_NONE,RCVD_IN_HOSTKARMA_NO,RCVD_IN_HOSTKARMA_YE,TW_MK X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Received: from vms173013pub.verizon.net (HELO vms173013pub.verizon.net) (206.46.173.13) by sourceware.org (qpsmtpd/0.43rc1) with ESMTP; Thu, 12 Jul 2012 21:42:34 +0000 Received: from [192.168.1.231] ([unknown] [108.7.54.123]) by vms173013.mailsrvcs.net (Sun Java(tm) System Messaging Server 7u2-7.02 32bit (built Apr 16 2009)) with ESMTPA id <0M72009J8HMLNAL0@vms173013.mailsrvcs.net> for cygwin@cygwin.com; Thu, 12 Jul 2012 16:42:26 -0500 (CDT) Message-id: <4FFF44BD.1090507@cygwin.com> Date: Thu, 12 Jul 2012 21:42:00 -0000 From: "Larry Hall (Cygwin)" Reply-to: cygwin@cygwin.com User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; WOW64; rv:13.0) Gecko/20120614 Thunderbird/13.0.1 MIME-version: 1.0 To: cygwin@cygwin.com Subject: Re: best way to re-install and keep cygwin configuration References: <4FFF12A6.5000100@molconn.com> <4FFF3343.5010103@cygwin.com> <4FFF35DC.2060403@cygwin.com> <4FFF3BDE.2070500@molconn.com> In-reply-to: <4FFF3BDE.2070500@molconn.com> Content-type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-transfer-encoding: 7bit Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Id: List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com X-SW-Source: 2012-07/txt/msg00247.txt.bz2 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 _____________________________________________________________________ A: Yes. > Q: Are you sure? >> A: Because it reverses the logical flow of conversation. >>> Q: Why is top posting annoying in email? -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple