Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] 1.5.24 unable to access files via root / (forward slash)

You have a whole mess of non-Cygwin programs in your path. Ah... it looks like I have a lot of housekeeping to take care of that I didn't know about. I need to do some reading up on the PATH variable, I thought it was only the stuff in /usr/etc/profile that set the PATH. Thanks! Jeff. --

Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] 1.5.24 unable to access files via root / (forward slash)

Just to conclude my query, in the file usr/etc/profile I've added the line: PATH= Above my other PATH variables. When I run cygcheck again, all of the pre-existing Windows Path environment variables have gone, which seems to be what I needed to happen. Thanks to all, Jeff. -- View this

Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] 1.5.24 unable to access files via root / (forward slash)

* Jeff2007 (Tue, 20 Feb 2007 07:22:54 -0800 (PST)) Just to conclude my query, in the file usr/etc/profile I've added the line: PATH= Above my other PATH variables. When I run cygcheck again, all of the pre-existing Windows Path environment variables have gone, which seems to be what I