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"Larry Hall (Cygwin)" <reply-to-list-only-lh AT cygwin DOT com> writes: > > 'setup.exe' installs files with the user name of the user that invoked > 'setup.exe' so depending on who you update your Cygwin installation as, > you may need to do this again. Obviously, it would be preferable to do > the updates as the same user as you want to "own" the files. ;-) > >> In that case, it would probably be better all round if I use MEAD8998 >> throughout and drop 'paul', at least on that machine. >> >> So, I've tried to find where the user 'paul' is coming from and can't >> find anywhere to change that either. Where is the current username held, >> and how can I change it? > > Cygwin gets user names from the '/etc/passwd' file. > > Perhaps you have a local user 'paul' on your machine? I've just found it in my .profile. Must have put it there ages ago when I was having trouble with the emacs install. Now I'll try to see whether that cures my problem running cron... thanks for your help! Paul -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple
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