Mail Archives: cygwin/2003/03/31/20:57:56
Peter Davis wrote:
> On Mon, 31 Mar 2003 18:15:13 -0500
> Rolf Campbell <rcampbell AT tropicnetworks DOT com> wrote:
>
>
>>Peter Davis wrote:
>>
>>>I recently switched from Windows NT4 and Windows 2000 to Windows XP. I
>>>installed cygwin freshly on both systems. Now I'm noticing that on both
>>>systems, .bashrc seems to be completely ignored. I haven't changed this
>>>file at all, but suddenly the aliases I define and export are not
>>>defined when I try to type them at the shell prompt.
>>>
>>>If I do
>>>
>>> source ~/.bashrc
>>>
>>>it works without error, but the aliases are *still* not defined. I
>>>noticed by running 'cygcheck -s' that the new systems seem to have DLL
>>>build 1.3.22 (3/18/2003), while the older ones were running build 1.3.20
>>>(2/18/2003). However, nothing else has changed. This used to work, but
>>>now doesn't.
>>>
>>>Any clues?
>>>
>>>Thanks,
>>>
>>>-pd
>>
>>What does your /etc/passwd look like?
>
>
>
> It's got a bunch of entries: SYSTEM, Administrators, Administrator, Guest, pdavis, etc.
>
> What should I be looking for?
can you post the content?
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