Where and what is CYGGDBM.DLL?

2001-10-26 Thread Pradyumn Sharma
I installed bash, ash, cygwin, cvs and openssh, and tried running cvs for Windows platform. However, when I try to run cvs command, I get an error message saying: A required .DLL file, CYGGDBM.DLL was not found. I tried reinstalling, but continue to get the same error message. What a

gdb and Windows 2000

2001-10-26 Thread Jean-Marc Eurin
Hello, I would like to continue the discussion in the thread at http://sources.redhat.com/ml/cygwin/2001-09/msg00170.html I have exactly the same problem: je734613:jme/tmp> cat test.c main() { printf ("hello\n"); } je734613:jme/tmp>gcc -g -o test test.c je734613:jme/tmp> gdb -nw ./test

Who bug??

2001-10-26 Thread andrew kitchen
Hello, I recently reinstalled & reconfigured sshd after managing to misconfigure it beyond a point I felt like troubleshooting any longer... After setting it up on a domain, I edited my /etc/passwd and /etc/group files as suggested at http://tech.erdelynet.com/cygwin-sshd.asp, and after some pe

Perl database problem

2001-10-26 Thread Goksun Ilhan
Hi, I am trying to run a Perl program in cygwin. When I create the database using dbmopen command, it looks like it's working (it's only creating .pag file, not .dir file). However, when I try to read something from the database, it cannot open the file. I run the program on a UNIX machine and it

Re: 30 second startup delay on Cygwin programs from SYSTEM

2001-10-26 Thread Scott Atwood
David Starks-Browning writes: > On Friday 26 Oct 01, Scott Atwood writes: > > I don't think the //X drive syntax is the problem here. This is a new > > installation, so I can't compare to previous versions of the Cygwin DLL, > > but the %PATH% of the SYSTEM account doesn't contain any network dri

ssh with X forwarding

2001-10-26 Thread Cary Lewis
I am trying to get ssh with xforwarding to work. When I execute a ssh command to a remote host and manually set my DISPLAY variable to point back to my original machine, I can launch x program and they display on the original machine's x server. So that works great. The problem is that some of t

Re: no command output via ssh

2001-10-26 Thread egor duda
Hi! Friday, 26 October, 2001 Alex BATKO [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: AB> Correction: net.exe does not show output on either of the DCs, AB> it simply flashes its result in a separate window on the machine AB> that I preform the command. All other commands work as expected. is sshd started via ine

Re: 30 second startup delay on Cygwin programs from SYSTEM

2001-10-26 Thread David Starks-Browning
On Friday 26 Oct 01, Scott Atwood writes: > I don't think the //X drive syntax is the problem here. This is a new > installation, so I can't compare to previous versions of the Cygwin DLL, > but the %PATH% of the SYSTEM account doesn't contain any network drives: > > C:\WINNT\system32;C:\WINNT;C

Re: problems with sshd and RSAAuthentication

2001-10-26 Thread Peter Fales
My machine is not part of a domain. Attempting to run mkpasswd -d reports "NetUserEnum() failed" and exits. -- Peter Fales Lucent Technologies, Room 5B-408 N9IYJ 2000 N Naperville Rd PO Box 3033 internet: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Naperville, IL 6

Re: problems with sshd and RSAAuthentication

2001-10-26 Thread Peter Fales
Thanks. Good suggestion. When I run sshd as user foo, I can login as foo using RSAauthentication. It fails if I try to login as another user, but in a different way... The event log says "Received signal 15 terminating" and the debug messages say "read error from remote host ESHUTDOWN trigger

Re: no command output via ssh

2001-10-26 Thread Alex BATKO
Correction: net.exe does not show output on either of the DCs, it simply flashes its result in a separate window on the machine that I preform the command. All other commands work as expected. Sorry for the confusion. +--- | We have two Win2K Domain Controllers, with Cygwin i

RE: bz2 files

2001-10-26 Thread Churchill, Dan (MN65)
Okay then. This last info you sent to me only (I'm sending it to the list with this posting - see below) is information that gives us a common starting point and indicates some issue/conflict with setup that should be addressed. I'm not familiar with this problem - but maybe someone on the list

Re: problems with sshd and RSAAuthentication

2001-10-26 Thread Corinna Vinschen
On Fri, Oct 26, 2001 at 01:22:48PM -0500, Peter Fales wrote: > So what you are saying is that SYSTEM is running my sshd since it is running > from cygrunsrv, and SYSTEM has all rights it needs.But, it still > doesn't let me in with RSAAuthentication.Is there any way to > tell (perhaps by

Re: problems with sshd and RSAAuthentication

2001-10-26 Thread Peter Buckley
Have you tried starting sshd from the command line? You can also put it into debugging/verbose mode that way, with sshd -d (or multiple -d's, 3 max?). Does it work from the command line? If you have the same problem from the command line, that points to the variable of the SYSTEM account not b

Re: bz2 files

2001-10-26 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Fri, Oct 26, 2001 at 03:13:15PM -0400, Christopher Faylor wrote: >Btw, I sincerely doubt that your email address is correct. There >is no "elcon" in the cygnus.com domain. Oops. Nevermind. I guess that would be my local mailer adding a cygnus.com domain. cgf -- Unsubscribe info: http

Re: bz2 files

2001-10-26 Thread Christopher Faylor
>From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ??? On Fri, Oct 26, 2001 at 08:50:50PM +, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >I am having some problem installing the complete package as it seems >the some of the bz2 files are not recognized by by winzip8.0 or unzip >as a zipped file. Go to http://cygwin.com/ and click on "I

RE: bz2 files

2001-10-26 Thread Churchill, Dan (MN65)
Why are you trying to unzip them with WinZip? That is not the standard method of installation. If you want to continue to do it that way, seek support from the people who have provided you with your installation instructions. The members of this list and/or the Cygwin development team are not g

Re: bz2 files

2001-10-26 Thread Larry Hall (RFK Partners, Inc)
At 04:50 PM 10/26/2001, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >Hi > >I am having some problem installing the complete package as it seems the some of the >bz2 >files are not recognized by by winzip8.0 or unzip as a zipped file. Some of the normal >gzip files are not found either, but if I look in the director

bz2 files

2001-10-26 Thread elcon
Hi I am having some problem installing the complete package as it seems the some of the bz2 files are not recognized by by winzip8.0 or unzip as a zipped file. Some of the normal gzip files are not found either, but if I look in the directory, they are present. I can also extarct them manually

Re: 30 second startup delay on Cygwin programs from SYSTEM

2001-10-26 Thread Larry Hall (RFK Partners, Inc)
At 02:29 PM 10/26/2001, Scott Atwood wrote: >"Larry Hall (RFK Partners, Inc)" writes: > > > > FAQ entry > > > > Why is Cygwin suddenly so slow? > > http://www.cygwin.com/faq/faq_4.html#SEC32 > > > > is a good hint. Focus on the fact that network shares (or drives) in the > > path are an issue,

Re: 30 second startup delay on Cygwin programs from SYSTEM

2001-10-26 Thread Scott Atwood
"Larry Hall (RFK Partners, Inc)" writes: > > FAQ entry > > Why is Cygwin suddenly so slow? > http://www.cygwin.com/faq/faq_4.html#SEC32 > > is a good hint. Focus on the fact that network shares (or drives) in the > path are an issue, not necessarily the recent change that makes the now > obsol

Re: Re: Compiling XV

2001-10-26 Thread christopher . kennedy
'xv-3.10a' compiles under Cygwin almost out of the box. Edit the Makefile in the root install directory as follows: 'CC = gcc -ansi' 'CCOPTS = -O -I/usr/X11R6/include/ -L/usr/X11R6/lib/' In 'xv.h', comment out or disable the reference to 'sys_errlist' in line 119; it's already defined in 'errno

Re: problems with sshd and RSAAuthentication

2001-10-26 Thread Peter Fales
So what you are saying is that SYSTEM is running my sshd since it is running from cygrunsrv, and SYSTEM has all rights it needs.But, it still doesn't let me in with RSAAuthentication.Is there any way to tell (perhaps by turning on additional logging) why it doesn't work? -- Peter Fales

Re: problems with sshd and RSAAuthentication

2001-10-26 Thread Corinna Vinschen
On Fri, Oct 26, 2001 at 11:34:42AM -0500, Peter Fales wrote: > On Fri, Oct 26, 2001 at 06:00:58PM +0200, Corinna Vinschen wrote: > > > - SYSTEM doesn't need that rights set since it has all rights already. > > - That are the rights needed for being able to change account using > > password auth

Re: chmod/chown + ntsec doesn't work (was OpenSSH and RSA authentication problems)

2001-10-26 Thread Corinna Vinschen
On Thu, Oct 25, 2001 at 02:12:44PM -0400, Jason Tishler wrote: > Peter, > > On Fri, Oct 05, 2001 at 10:40:10AM -0400, Peter Buckley wrote: > > But, chown still doesn't work. > > I just stumbled over chown not working under certain conditions from > a ssh login myself. If I ssh into a domain mac

Re: problems with sshd and RSAAuthentication

2001-10-26 Thread Peter Fales
On Fri, Oct 26, 2001 at 06:00:58PM +0200, Corinna Vinschen wrote: > - SYSTEM doesn't need that rights set since it has all rights already. > - That are the rights needed for being able to change account using > password authentication. > > Either you let SYSTEM run cygrunsrv or you have to add

Re: setup clobbers passwd

2001-10-26 Thread Gerrit P. Haase
Hallo Jerrad, 2001-10-26 18:11:59, du schriebst: >>It doesn't, I run setup every day... > Maybe I should be more clear... > I use tcsh so I set my dshell to /bin/tcsh. > Every single time I run setup it replaces the line in /etc/passwd > and turns /bin/tcsh into /bin/bash Well, why should thi

Re: FAQ Section 28

2001-10-26 Thread Earnie Boyd
I would rather David added an also about the site:cygwin.com. There is a lot of useful information about Cygwin in other archives and on other web pages. Earnie. _ Do You Yahoo!? Get your free @yahoo.com address at http://mail.yahoo.com

Re: problems with sshd and RSAAuthentication

2001-10-26 Thread Peter Fales
On Fri, Oct 26, 2001 at 11:49:02AM -0400, Peter Buckley wrote: > How did you install sshd- "sshd --install-as-service"? I used "ssh-host-config" which uses cygrunsrv to start sshd. The only explicit option is -D. I'm not familiar with --install-as-service. Where is it documented? > Which user

Re: cvs server on cygwin

2001-10-26 Thread John Peacock
Charles Wilson wrote: > > Brandon Kohn wrote: > > > > Hi all, > > > > I'm tyring to run cvs as a repository server via cygwin and am beginning to > > wonder if its even possible. I've been unable to get rsh to work with > > command (rlogin works, but rsh -l username remotehost doesn't > > work.

Re: problems with sshd and RSAAuthentication

2001-10-26 Thread Corinna Vinschen
On Fri, Oct 26, 2001 at 10:27:38AM -0500, Peter Fales wrote: > I'm currently trying to get sshd access to our Cygwin/Win2000 machine. > Currently it works well using password authentication, but I can't get > it to use RSAAuthentication - it seems to be accepting the key, but > then exits right

Re: cvs server on cygwin

2001-10-26 Thread Charles Wilson
Brandon Kohn wrote: > > Hi all, > > I'm tyring to run cvs as a repository server via cygwin and am beginning to > wonder if its even possible. I've been unable to get rsh to work with > command (rlogin works, but rsh -l username remotehost doesn't > work. returns permission denied.) Could so

Re: problems with sshd and RSAAuthentication

2001-10-26 Thread Peter Buckley
Password authentication *truly* authenticates you, but ssh (without a password) uses NtCreateToken, which creates an authentication token without the need for a password. Unfortunately, this token is not unique- it cannot be, because it isn't generated with a unique username/password combinati

Re: [feature-request] Installation Tool: Create profiles as meaningful collection of packages

2001-10-26 Thread Charles Wilson
Johannes Brodwall wrote: > > Hi, > I have found that personally, the setup.exe installation is not very > convenient. With 80+ packages, ranging from critical (ash), to useful > (fileutils) to unusable without external help (postgresql - requires > cygipc), I always end up installing all the pac

Re: Updated: gdb-20010428-2

2001-10-26 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Fri, Oct 26, 2001 at 09:44:44AM +0200, Schaible, Jorg wrote: >Hi Chris, > >>I don't know how to fix this. I'm not randomly inserting >>capitalization >>here. >> >>If the filenames returned by the >>system don't match the actual filenames in the system then I'm >>not going to go out of my way

Re: [feature-request] Installation Tool: Create profiles as meaningful collection of packages

2001-10-26 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Fri, Oct 26, 2001 at 11:25:30AM +0200, Johannes Brodwall wrote: >Hi, >I have found that personally, the setup.exe installation is not very >convenient. With 80+ packages, ranging from critical (ash), to useful >(fileutils) to unusable without external help (postgresql - requires >cygipc), I al

CAMP Setup of MSQL/MySQL

2001-10-26 Thread David M. Clark
Hi, I am a novice, and I hope my naivety does not look like stupidity. I am using Cygwin as an easier way to learn unix, and have CAMP installed so that I can do php dev locally. CAMP installed fine, and PHP seems to be working. What I cannot figure out are the default settings for msql/mysql,

problems with sshd and RSAAuthentication

2001-10-26 Thread Peter Fales
I'm currently trying to get sshd access to our Cygwin/Win2000 machine. Currently it works well using password authentication, but I can't get it to use RSAAuthentication - it seems to be accepting the key, but then exits right away and creates a windows event log entry: 10/26/2001 9:51:38

Re: Compiling XV

2001-10-26 Thread Benjamin Riefenstahl
Hi Socheat, > > Does anyone have any advice on how to compile xv? or better yet, > > where I can get a binary for it? Thanks, A google search gives http://www.trilon.com/xv/ as the home page for XV. There are links to binaries available there at http://www.trilon.com/xv/downloads.html#bin-dis

Re: setup clobbers passwd

2001-10-26 Thread Jerrad Pierce
>It doesn't, I run setup every day... Maybe I should be more clear... I use tcsh so I set my dshell to /bin/tcsh. Every single time I run setup it replaces the line in /etc/passwd and turns /bin/tcsh into /bin/bash -- H4sICNoBwDoAA3NpZwA9jbsNwDAIRHumuC4NklvXTOD0KSJEnwU8fHz4Q8M9i3sGzkS7BBrm OkC

no command output via ssh

2001-10-26 Thread Alex BATKO
Hello. I am hoping that someone might be able to help me resolve the problem outlined below. We have two Win2K Domain Controllers, with Cygwin installed on both. I'm ssh'ing into these two machines without problem. When I run the command net.exe on one of the two DCs the output of the command d

Re: Article prefix on mailling list

2001-10-26 Thread David Starks-Browning
On Friday 26 Oct 01, Larry Hall (RFK Partners, Inc) writes: > At 06:57 AM 10/26/2001, Gerrit P. Haase wrote: > >Hallo Carlos, > > > >2001-10-26 12:56:08, du schriebst: > > > > > It would be nice if every mail sent out on this list could prefix > > > the Subject line with [cygwin], like they do for

Re: Article prefix on mailling list

2001-10-26 Thread Larry Hall (RFK Partners, Inc)
At 06:57 AM 10/26/2001, Gerrit P. Haase wrote: >Hallo Carlos, > >2001-10-26 12:56:08, du schriebst: > > > It would be nice if every mail sent out on this list could prefix > > the Subject line with [cygwin], like they do for the cgiwrap > > mailling list on sourceforge. > >No, please don't do thi

Re: Language Problems with cygwin (newlib/ctype)

2001-10-26 Thread felix . schaller
nun denn das problem ist, ich habe bereits versucht das package cygwin 1.3.3-2 zu kompilieren, doch der kompiler brach vorher ab... eine möglichkeit ist woher bekommen ich eine funktionierende version (evtl. ein update), zweitens wie kann man dies umgehen und diese direkt linkenohne alles ne

Re: 30 second startup delay on Cygwin programs from SYSTEM account

2001-10-26 Thread Larry Hall (RFK Partners, Inc)
FAQ entry Why is Cygwin suddenly so slow? http://www.cygwin.com/faq/faq_4.html#SEC32 is a good hint. Focus on the fact that network shares (or drives) in the path are an issue, not necessarily the recent change that makes the now obsolete //X drive syntax equivalent to a network path. While th

Re: Compiling XV

2001-10-26 Thread Socheat Sou
Ok, so I tried it again without the -DLINUX option, and I get the same error still: Warning: resolving _sys_errlist by linking to __imp__sys_errlist (auto-import) fu01.o(.idata$3+0xc): undefined reference to `templib_a_iname' fu02.o(.idata$3+0xc): undefined reference to `templib_a_iname'

cvs server on cygwin

2001-10-26 Thread Brandon Kohn
Hi all, I'm tyring to run cvs as a repository server via cygwin and am beginning to wonder if its even possible. I've been unable to get rsh to work with command (rlogin works, but rsh -l username remotehost doesn't work. returns permission denied.) Could somebody throw me a bone on this one?

Re: OpenSSH on Cygwin... Ctl-C kills the session

2001-10-26 Thread Corinna Vinschen
On Thu, Oct 25, 2001 at 06:34:37PM -0400, Theodore Pardike wrote: > Corinna, Chris, and John, > > I have been following your discussion about "OpenSSH on Cygwin... Ctl-C kills the >session" on the Openssh List Archives. > > On 06/27/2001, Scott Crosby also posted about this problem. Apparently

RE: [feature-request] Installation Tool: Create profiles as meaningful collection of packages

2001-10-26 Thread "Schaible, Jörg"
Hi David, can you change the FAQ at http://sources.redhat.com/cygwin/faq/faq.html#SEC28 not to add "cygwin" as term to the google search, but "site:cygwin.com" to narrow the search very precisely to Cygwin only? The better the search results, the less further questions arise ... (well, at least f

RE: [feature-request] Installation Tool: Create profiles as meani ngfu l collection of packages

2001-10-26 Thread "Schaible, Jörg"
Hi Andrew, please keep conversation at the list and send not private mails. >Sorry Jörg. Certainly I don't read mail archive. See the FAQ for searching the mail archive: http://sources.redhat.com/cygwin/faq/faq.html#SEC28 >About a): Tell me please, where cvs base of setup.exe project? http://w

Re: Compiling XV

2001-10-26 Thread Andrew Markebo
If you google a little you will find: http://www.trilon.com/xv/downloads.html There exist a xv compiled for win32, hmm ancient.. ahh well, no idea how to compile it with for xfree, you probably need to add a configuration or similar to the sources.. /Andy / Socheat Sou <[EMAIL

RE: [feature-request] Installation Tool: Create profiles as meaningful collection of packages

2001-10-26 Thread David Starks-Browning
I'll add something to the FAQ about this. Regards, David On Friday 26 Oct 01, "Schaible, Jörg" writes: > Hi Johannes and Andrew, > > not again! > > >> I have found that personally, the setup.exe installation is not very > >> convenient. > > >How about to converting setup.exe in dpkg (or rpm

Re: [feature-request] Installation Tool: Create profiles as meaningfu l collection of packages

2001-10-26 Thread Gerrit P. Haase
Hallo Andrew, 2001-10-26 13:01:01, du schriebst: > Hi all, > Absolutelly agree with Johannes > How about to converting setup.exe in dpkg (or rpm) like program, and > setup.ini in dpkg/rpm format? Others have tried to port rpm, but there is no easy way to do this. More easy is to improve setup

RE: [feature-request] Installation Tool: Create profiles as meaningfu l collection of packages

2001-10-26 Thread "Schaible, Jörg"
Hi Johannes and Andrew, not again! >> I have found that personally, the setup.exe installation is not very >> convenient. >How about to converting setup.exe in dpkg (or rpm) like program, and >setup.ini in dpkg/rpm format? did anyone of you searched through the archives of this mailing list?

Re: Article prefix on mailling list

2001-10-26 Thread Gerrit P. Haase
Hallo Carlos, 2001-10-26 12:56:08, du schriebst: > It would be nice if every mail sent out on this list could prefix > the Subject line with [cygwin], like they do for the cgiwrap > mailling list on sourceforge. No, please don't do this, its annoying. > It would be a lot easier to sort that m

Re: Language Problems with cygwin (newlib/ctype)

2001-10-26 Thread Gerrit P. Haase
Hallo felix, 2001-10-26 12:52:07, du schriebst: > i'm having problems with the newlib package > especially the module "ctype.h" which is responsible for recognizing > characters > the problem is, that it doesnt recognize UTF-8 characters like umlauts or > accents > i compiled the newlib as it i

Re: //c path prefix (again) with a legacy sw?

2001-10-26 Thread Gerrit P. Haase
Hallo Jokinen, 2001-10-26 10:56:53, du schriebst: > During the compiler bootstrap comes a point where a generated > tool (m3build) says: > -- building m3cc in language\modula3\m3compiler -- > C:\cygwin\usr\src\pm3-1.1.15\src\..\boot-NT386GNU\m3build\NT386GNU\m3build -T C: > \cyg

[feature-request] Installation Tool: Create profiles as meaningful collection of packages

2001-10-26 Thread Andrew Volkov
Hi all, Absolutelly agree with Johannes How about to converting setup.exe in dpkg (or rpm) like program, and setup.ini in dpkg/rpm format? Andrey > -Original Message- > From: Johannes Brodwall [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: Friday, October 26, 2001 1:25 PM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >

RE: unable to compile gcc 3.0.1 with java on cygwin

2001-10-26 Thread Ebrey, Carl
Okay, no doubt I'm going to get horribly flamed for this but here goes... What's wrong with the j2sdk? Or are we going for native binaries from Java code here? Carl > -Original Message- > From: Roman Belenov [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: Friday, October 26, 2001 10:54 AM > To: Bill

Re: unable to compile gcc 3.0.1 with java on cygwin

2001-10-26 Thread Roman Belenov
Well, I've built gcc 3.0.2 without any special configure switches and gcj was built (file like gcj.exe in bin and jc1.exe in lib/gcc-lib/i686-pc-cygwin/3.02 were installed). I don't sure that it works (I'm not interested in Java myself), but at least it can be compiled. "Billinghurst, David (CRTS

[feature-request] Installation Tool: Create profiles as meaningful collection of packages

2001-10-26 Thread Johannes Brodwall
Hi, I have found that personally, the setup.exe installation is not very convenient. With 80+ packages, ranging from critical (ash), to useful (fileutils) to unusable without external help (postgresql - requires cygipc), I always end up installing all the packages available for simplicity. I cur

Re: Article prefix on mailling list

2001-10-26 Thread Bjoern Kahl AG Resy
Hallo! On Fri, 26 Oct 2001, Carlos de Sousa wrote: > It would be nice if every mail sent out on this list could prefix > the Subject line with [cygwin], like they do for the cgiwrap > mailling list on sourceforge. > It would be a lot easier to sort that mail from all other mailling list > arti

[PATCH] Setup.exe dialog boxes losing focus after download of ini/packages

2001-10-26 Thread Pavel Tsekov
This patch removes the calls to SetForegroundWindow in geturl.cc and install.cc - these, IMO, make setup.exe dialogs to not properly gain focus after a the get_url_* or do_install dialogs are created. Actually there is no need to call SetForegroundWindow at all on these progress dialogs - they do

RE: Updated: gdb-20010428-2

2001-10-26 Thread Schaible, Jorg
Hi Chris, >I don't know how to fix this. I'm not randomly inserting >capitalization >here. > >If the filenames returned by the >system don't match the actual filenames in the system then I'm >not going to go out of my way to figure them out. I don't even >know *how* I'd figure them out. remem

Re: Language Problems with cygwin (newlib/ctype)

2001-10-26 Thread Pavel Tsekov
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > hello > > i'm having problems with the newlib package > especially the module "ctype.h" which is responsible for recognizing > characters > the problem is, that it doesnt recognize UTF-8 characters like umlauts or > accents > > first i tried to solve it by setting t

Re: Language Problems with cygwin (newlib/ctype)

2001-10-26 Thread Pavel Tsekov
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > hello > > i'm having problems with the newlib package > especially the module "ctype.h" which is responsible for recognizing > characters > the problem is, that it doesnt recognize UTF-8 characters like umlauts or > accents > > first i tried to solve it by setting t

Article prefix on mailling list

2001-10-26 Thread Carlos de Sousa
Hi! It would be nice if every mail sent out on this list could prefix the Subject line with [cygwin], like they do for the cgiwrap mailling list on sourceforge. It would be a lot easier to sort that mail from all other mailling list articles I subscribe too just my two cents Carlos de Sousa

/etc/profile /etc/passwd and HOME

2001-10-26 Thread Mathew Boorman
After installing on 2000 where my account has a default HOMEDRIVE setup, I did the cygwin install. mkpasswd automatically setup the home field in /etc/passwd correctly, but it did not work. I found /etc/profile does not check that but instead only checks for an existing HOME. It does not check