Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin@cygwin.com Date: Sat, 23 Nov 2002 23:03:02 -0500 From: Christopher Faylor To: cygwin@cygwin.com Subject: Re: cygwin-1.3.16-1 Message-ID: <20021124040302.GB29064@redhat.com> Reply-To: cygwin@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com References: <000701c2934b$24f59620$b17b1f3e@leper> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <000701c2934b$24f59620$b17b1f3e@leper> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.1i On Sat, Nov 23, 2002 at 11:50:46PM -0000, fergus@bonhard.uklinux.net wrote: >Strange consequence of upgrading from cygwin-1.3.15-2 to 1.3.16-1: instead >of starting off in ~ with ~/.bash_profile correctly read, now start in / >with ~/.bash_profile not read. Both /etc/group and /etc/passwd are >unaltered. However Cygwin now seems to know my username but not my group, >which is now "unknown". I'm using W98/SE. Alternating between 1.3.15-2 and >1.3.16-1 means the phenomenon described comes and goes. Full install. All >other provision upgraded to latest available version incl. bash-2.05b-8. >Just letting you know. Possibly user error. Thanks anyway. Fergus It's a shame that this didn't have a more descriptive subject. I'll bet the people responsible for this possible change in behavior will skip right over this message. cgf -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Bug reporting: http://cygwin.com/bugs.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/