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-Authentication-Warning: slinky.cs.nyu.edu: pechtcha owned process doing -bs Date: Thu, 3 Apr 2003 21:54:49 -0500 (EST) From: Igor Pechtchanski Reply-To: cygwin@cygwin.com To: "Pierre A. Humblet" cc: cygwin@cygwin.com Subject: Re: Postinstall failure: file not found In-Reply-To: <20030404023710.GA45445591@hpn5170x> Message-ID: Importance: Normal MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII On Thu, 3 Apr 2003, Pierre A. Humblet wrote: > On Thu, Apr 03, 2003 at 09:14:14PM -0500, Igor Pechtchanski wrote: > > > > Since this is happening on a clean install, I can only assume that there > > is something wrong with the mkpasswd invocation... But I'd be very > > interested in Pierre's and Corinna's opinion on this. > > Igor, what's your reading of the log? > We have a chicken and egg problem here. Perhaps mkpasswd works just > fine but it was never called because passwd-grp.sh could not be > found! > [snip] Ah, I didn't realize that the file could be renamed but not executed (which is exactly what happened). As for the log, it shows that none of the postinstall scripts were executed (including passwd-grp.sh). Igor -- http://cs.nyu.edu/~pechtcha/ |\ _,,,---,,_ pechtcha@cs.nyu.edu ZZZzz /,`.-'`' -. ;-;;,_ igor@watson.ibm.com |,4- ) )-,_. ,\ ( `'-' Igor Pechtchanski '---''(_/--' `-'\_) fL a.k.a JaguaR-R-R-r-r-r-.-.-. Meow! Knowledge is an unending adventure at the edge of uncertainty. -- Leto II -- 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/