From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 19266 invoked by alias); 2 Sep 2003 01:50:17 -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 19255 invoked from network); 2 Sep 2003 01:50:15 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO slinky.cs.nyu.edu) (128.122.20.14) by sources.redhat.com with SMTP; 2 Sep 2003 01:50:15 -0000 Received: from slinky.cs.nyu.edu (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by slinky.cs.nyu.edu (8.12.9+Sun/8.12.9) with ESMTP id h821oEmL015329; Mon, 1 Sep 2003 21:50:14 -0400 (EDT) Received: from localhost (pechtcha@localhost) by slinky.cs.nyu.edu (8.12.9+Sun/8.12.2/Submit) with ESMTP id h821o9fA015321; Mon, 1 Sep 2003 21:50:14 -0400 (EDT) X-Authentication-Warning: slinky.cs.nyu.edu: pechtcha owned process doing -bs Date: Tue, 02 Sep 2003 01:50:00 -0000 From: Igor Pechtchanski Reply-To: cygwin@cygwin.com To: Hoyt Bailey cc: cygwin@cygwin.com Subject: Re: Installation problems In-Reply-To: <000501c370ef$5ab03d60$1f5a22d0@blackgold> Message-ID: References: <000501c370ef$5ab03d60$1f5a22d0@blackgold> Importance: Normal MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII X-SW-Source: 2003-09/txt/msg00069.txt.bz2 On Mon, 1 Sep 2003, Hoyt Bailey wrote: > I am running Windows XP with 512MB. I downloaded from the VA mirror and all > seemed to go well no problems. I downloaded setup.exe and it took over and > installed the rest from the internet. When completed I clicked on the > Desktop Icon and got the following: > /bin/find: /etc/profile.d: No such file or directory. > Hoyt@blackgold ~ Ignore this. This is simply a warning from the part of /etc/profile that's supposed to run helper scripts for various applications, which reside in /etc/profile.d. This message means that you haven't installed any applications that use this directory (and thus, this directory didn't get created). I've notified the maintainer of the "base-files" package of this warning. > Futher checking showed that /etc/profile does exist and is readable at least > with cat. (/etc/profile.d does not exist). This just confirms the above. > Other problems discovered ls only works if you give it a directory ls > (dosent) ls /etc (works). This is strange. Are you running the right "ls"? What is the exact message you get when ls doesn't work? Where are you running "ls" from -- a bash shell, or a Windows command prompt (cmd.exe)? If from a bash shell, what is the output of "/bin/pwd; type -a ls; /bin/ls ."? Also, please (re)read the problem reporting guidelines at , especially the bit about attaching (as an uncompressed text *attachment*) the output of "cygcheck -svr". This output will contain the information that'll help in diagnosing your problem. > Passwd works but it changes my login password to Windows. As it should. For more information, "man passwd". > There is no root user and mkuser doesnt work. Cygwin has neither a root user nor the mkuser command. There are multiple users in Windows with various capabilities that the root user usually has, the exact one to use depends on why you need to be root. > Commands less, more, dir were not recognized. Most likely you didn't install the "less", "more", and "fileutils" packages. The cygcheck output mentioned above will either confirm or deny this. > I dont > think I am in cygwin but I have no idea where I am. Judging by the prompt included above you *are* in a Cygwin bash shell. Your other problems most likely have reasonably easy solutions, as long as we have the cygcheck output to tell us the exact configuration of your system. Igor -- http://cs.nyu.edu/~pechtcha/ |\ _,,,---,,_ pechtcha@cs.nyu.edu ZZZzz /,`.-'`' -. ;-;;,_ igor@watson.ibm.com |,4- ) )-,_. ,\ ( `'-' Igor Pechtchanski, Ph.D. '---''(_/--' `-'\_) fL a.k.a JaguaR-R-R-r-r-r-.-.-. Meow! "I have since come to realize that being between your mentor and his route to the bathroom is a major career booster." -- Patrick Naughton -- 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/