From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 3033 invoked by alias); 23 Sep 2003 15:20:01 -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 3010 invoked from network); 23 Sep 2003 15:20:00 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO slinky.cs.nyu.edu) (128.122.20.14) by sources.redhat.com with SMTP; 23 Sep 2003 15:20:00 -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 h8NFJxmL004905; Tue, 23 Sep 2003 11:19:59 -0400 (EDT) Received: from localhost (pechtcha@localhost) by slinky.cs.nyu.edu (8.12.9+Sun/8.12.2/Submit) with ESMTP id h8NFJxDN004902; Tue, 23 Sep 2003 11:19:59 -0400 (EDT) X-Authentication-Warning: slinky.cs.nyu.edu: pechtcha owned process doing -bs Date: Tue, 23 Sep 2003 15:23:00 -0000 From: Igor Pechtchanski Reply-To: cygwin@cygwin.com To: "Hughes, Bill" cc: cygwin@cygwin.com Subject: RE: Cygwin 1.5.5 Configuration problem In-Reply-To: <4989AFD7505BD611961B0002A5DA3E740382BE2A@NNHML2> Message-ID: References: <4989AFD7505BD611961B0002A5DA3E740382BE2A@NNHML2> Importance: Normal MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII X-SW-Source: 2003-09/txt/msg01471.txt.bz2 On Tue, 23 Sep 2003, Hughes, Bill wrote: > Sent: 23 September 2003 15:26 From: Igor Pechtchanski > > On Tue, 23 Sep 2003, Hughes, Bill wrote: > > > Why is it I always find the problem after I post? > > > There was no /etc/profile in my installation. > > > I copied one from another machine and my installation appears OK, except for > > > the man problem. > > > I don't know if /etc/profile is mssing from the distribution or something > > > happened to mine. > > > > Bill, > > > > Did you install the "base-files" package? The postinstall script should > > have created an /etc/profile for you (by copying it from > > /etc/defaults/etc/profile). If it failed, there should be a message in > > /var/log/setup.log.full (unless you ran setup after that, in which case > > that file will have been overwritten). > > Igor > > It was a fresh installation so yes I had to install "base-files" (about the > only thing I didn't install was ghostscript). > I had to change mirrors while downloading to a local folder, but this was > separate - I rebooted and then installed from my local mirror. > I've just looked and I don't have a /etc/defaults folder. > I suppose this means a re-install? Look at the logs (/var/log/setup.log{,.full}). Did "base-files" get installed? 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/