From: Igor Pechtchanski <pechtcha@cs.nyu.edu>
To: cygwin@cygwin.com
Cc: "Hughes, Bill" <Bill.Hughes@cox.co.uk>
Subject: RE: Cygwin 1.5.5 Configuration problem
Date: Tue, 23 Sep 2003 16:24:00 -0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <Pine.GSO.4.56.0309231214050.25002@slinky.cs.nyu.edu> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.GSO.4.56.0309231211230.25002@slinky.cs.nyu.edu>
On Tue, 23 Sep 2003, Igor Pechtchanski wrote:
> On Tue, 23 Sep 2003, Hughes, Bill wrote:
>
> > Sent: 23 September 2003 16:20 From: Igor Pechtchanski
> > >
> > > Look at the logs (/var/log/setup.log{,.full}). Did "base-files" get
> > > installed?
> > > Igor
> >
> > No. It's not in the cygcheck output either. Weird, I selected install for
> > 'all' in setup and then de-selected ghostscript as I was playing with that
> > and Redmon at the time, I have no idea how "base-files" was set to "skip"
> > but it was.
> > I suppose it's "mea culpa" but I really have no idea how, apologies all, and
> > thanks for the patience.
> > I don't know if I should mention it but I've (re-)installed base-files and
> > man still doesn't work.
> >
> > Thank you again Igor, for your help.
>
> "base-files" will not replace your /etc/passwd if you already have one.
s@/etc/passwd@/etc/profile@
> Try "cp -fp /etc/defaults/etc/profile /etc/profile", and see if that fixes
> your "man" problem.
> Igor
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2003-09-23 16:14 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2003-09-23 16:13 Hughes, Bill
2003-09-23 16:14 ` Igor Pechtchanski
2003-09-23 16:24 ` Igor Pechtchanski [this message]
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2003-09-23 15:19 Hughes, Bill
2003-09-23 15:23 ` Igor Pechtchanski
2003-09-23 14:20 Hughes, Bill
2003-09-23 14:25 ` Corinna Vinschen
2003-09-23 14:25 ` Igor Pechtchanski
2003-09-23 14:12 Hughes, Bill
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