Mail Archives: cygwin/1998/05/21/15:48:20
In article <3 DOT 0 DOT 5 DOT 32 DOT 19980520140339 DOT 00929a30 DOT cygnus DOT gnu-win32 AT mail DOT ra DOT pae DOT osd DOT mil>,
Matthew Patton <matthew DOT patton AT ra DOT pae DOT osd DOT mil> wrote:
>I just so happened to figure out why I was getting this message. It's
>because I didn't have an /etc/passwd file. So how come this isn't in the
>"new users' guide" of things to do once installation is done?
Patches are welcome.
>Less says my terminal is not fully functional. What do others use for their
>TERM variable? I have /etc/termcap symlinked to /usr/X11R6.3/etc/termcap. I
>have a fair number of symlinks (/etc is itself a symlink). Is this a problem?
Your TERM environment variable should be set to "linux".
cgf
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