Mail Archives: cygwin/2003/02/24/09:49:20
Val,
Is the below ls output with Cygwin-1.3.19 or 1.3.20? Also, what's the
value of your CYGWIN environment variable?
You might also want to change your username in /etc/passwd to something
with no space. It probably isn't related to your current problem, but
some tools, especially shell scripts, cannot handle usernames with spaces
properly. Same goes for your home directory - just rename it to, say,
/home/Val_Schmidt and change the appropriate /etc/passwd entry. You don't
need to change your Windows user name, just the /etc/passwd entry. Be
careful to leave the SID part of the entry intact. Note that this change
*will* affect inetd and sshd if you use them.
Igor
On Mon, 24 Feb 2003, Val Schmidt wrote:
> I appreciate the help.
>
> It's not clear to me why either mkpasswd or mkgroup in my home directory
> would cause the effects I and others have been seeing with the latest
> version of cygwin.
>
> At any rate, here's the results of my ls -al on my home directory. No
> mkpasswd or mkgroup.
>
> -Val
>
> $ ls -al
> total 11492
> drwxrwxr-x+ 15 Administ Administ 0 Feb 23 14:33 ./
> drwxrwxr-x+ 3 Administ Administ 0 Jan 28 15:40 ../
> -rw-rw---- 1 Administ Administ 4518 Feb 21 16:57 .bash_history
> -rw-r--r-- 1 Val Schm None 596 Feb 20 15:54 .bash_profile
> -rw-rw-rw- 1 Val Schm None 587 Feb 23 14:33 .bashrc
> drwxrwxrwx+ 3 Val Schm None 0 Nov 22 13:37 .emacs.d/
> -rw-rw-rw- 1 Val Schm None 0 Feb 20 14:39 .gmtcommands
> -rw-rw-rw- 1 Val Schm None 356 Feb 19 16:27 .inputrc
> drwxr-xr-x+ 2 Val Schm None 0 Jan 30 10:13 .ncftp/
> -rw------- 1 Val Schm None 6061 Feb 23 17:45 .octave_hist
> -rw-r--r-- 1 Val Schm None 216 Nov 22 13:30 .profile
> drwxrwx---+ 2 Administ Administ 0 Jan 14 11:10 .ssh/
> -rwxrw-rw- 1 Val Schm None 43 Dec 13 11:59 .tunnel*
> -rw-rw-r-- 1 Val Schm None 664 Jan 20 10:13 .xinitrc
> drwxrwxrwx+ 4 Val Schm None 0 Jan 20 17:15 hiro/
> drwxr-xr-x+ 2 Val Schm None 0 Nov 21 17:42 kermit/
> lrwxrwxrwx 1 Val Schm None 191 Dec 13 14:44 mydocs -> /cygdrive/c/Documents and Settings/Val Schmidt/My Documents//
> drwxrwxrwx+ 6 Val Schm None 0 Feb 23 15:26 octave/
> -rwxrwx---+ 2 Administ SYSTEM 4194372 Feb 17 13:26 pfirewall.log*
> drwxrwxrwx+ 2 Val Schm None 0 Dec 19 15:41 plotscripts/
> drwxrwxrwx+ 3 Val Schm None 0 Jan 20 16:26 projects/
> drwxrwxr-x+ 6 Administ Administ 0 Jan 28 15:13 rsync-scripts/
> -rwxrwxr-x 1 Administ Administ 504 Oct 15 10:55 ssh.exe.stackdump*
> -rw-rw-rw- 1 Val Schm None 2202 Dec 12 13:31 sshd-cygwin
> -rw-rw-rw- 1 Val Schm None 1982 Dec 12 13:18 sshd-cygwin~
> drwxrwsr-x+ 4 Val Schm None 0 Feb 17 11:24 testing/
> drwxrwxrwx+ 2 Val Schm None 0 Feb 23 18:03 tmp/
> drwxrwxrwx+ 2 Val Schm None 0 Feb 3 17:09 tunnel_scripts/
> drwxrwxrwx+ 2 Val Schm None 0 Feb 3 16:34 unison-scripts/
> -rw-rw-rw- 1 Val Schm None 102 Feb 5 13:48 unison.cmd
> -rw-r--r-- 1 Val Schm None 7546969 Feb 17 15:20 waas.d226
>
> ________________________________________________
> Val Schmidt
> Lamont Doherty Earth Observatory of Columbia University
> 61 Route 9W
> Palisades, NY 10964
> m: 614 286 3726
>
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Elfyn McBratney [mailto:elfyn-cygwin AT exposure DOT org DOT uk]
> > Sent: Saturday, February 22, 2003 12:20 PM
> > To: cygwin; Val Schmidt
> > Subject: Re: Re: upgrading broke cygwin?
> >
> > > I upgraded to the 1.3.20-1 version dll today and saw very similar
> > > and strange behavior. Some things wouldn't execute due to
> > > permissions errors, and other would execute from commandline but not
> > > from a script. What causes this, I don't know.
> > >
> > > I ran setup.exe again, found the "base" cygwin install, cycled
> > > through the keep/uninstall/revert until 1.9-19 version came up, and
> > > installed the older version. Everything seems to be working fine
> > > now.
> > >
> > > I wish I could help with what's broke, but I don't have a clue.
> > >
> > > There's a recent remark in the list that's there's no way to
> > > uninstall - the procedure above seems to work just fine.
> >
> > What is the output of `ls -al /path/to/your/homedir' . I'm thinking
> > that it will contain eother mkpasswd or mkgroup.
> >
> > Elfyn McBratney
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