-------- how about:
if [ ! -f "/etc/profile" -a ! -L "/etc/profile"]; then cp -a /etc/profile.default /etc/profile fi Rightly or wrongly I setup /etc/profile as a symblic link to a network drive version of profile, so that several hosts share the same file. The postinstall/profile.sh leaves the link but then copies in the default profile, so I have to manually delete it. So, in general should there be a check for a symbolic link also as shown above. Just a thought. thanks, Tom -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Bug reporting: http://cygwin.com/bugs.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/