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 X-Originating-IP: [12.254.208.112] X-Originating-Email: [mgainty@hotmail.com] From: "Martin Gainty" To: , "Thorsten Kampe" References: <12zf1iw605qn4.dlg@thorstenkampe.de> Subject: Re: Hosts file Date: Tue, 25 Mar 2003 10:51:53 -0700 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2800.1106 Message-ID: X-OriginalArrivalTime: 25 Mar 2003 17:51:52.0636 (UTC) FILETIME=[37C5F7C0:01C2F2F7] Great! I am doing a make of mysql and am getting the error: libmysqld/sql_derived.cc: You are trying to create a symlink on a win32 file system. This file type is not supported on this platform. How do I correctly identify file types to cygwin and correct this error situation? Sorry for the bother! Thanks, Martin ----- Original Message ----- From: "Thorsten Kampe" To: Sent: Tuesday, March 25, 2003 10:26 AM Subject: Re: Hosts file > * Martin Gainty (03-03-25 18:07 +0100) > > Where does cygwin look for hosts file ? > > "Cygwin" doesn't care about "hosts". The applications are looking for > it in /etc and it is symlinked to the Windows default file in > %SYSTEMROOT%\system32\drivers\etc\. > > Thorsten > -- > Content-Type: text/explicit; charset=ISO-8859-666 (Parental Advisory) > Content-Transfer-Warning: message contains innuendos not suited for > children under the age of 18 > > > -- > 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/ > > -- 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/