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: Tue, 30 Sep 2003 15:51:54 +0100 (BST) From: John Morrison X-X-Sender: john@gateway.morrison To: "BUEHL,REINER (HP-Germany,ex1)" cc: cygwin@cygwin.com Subject: Re: Files in /etc missing after new install In-Reply-To: Message-ID: References: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII From a bash prompt /etc/postinstall/base-files-mketc.sh.done /etc/postinstall/base-files-profile.sh.done should create them, if the files don't exist with a .done extension then postinstall wasn't called. If they don't exist then you didn't install the base-files package. J. On Tue, 30 Sep 2003, BUEHL,REINER (HP-Germany,ex1) wrote: > Hi all, > > I just installed cygwin (Setup.exe v2.415). The installation went fine, no > errors, but all the files that should have been created during the > postinstall step are missing. There is no /etc/profile, no /etc/passwd, no > /etc/group and so on. > Can anybody help me to fix this? I already reinstalled twice... :-( > > Best regards, > Reiner. > > -- > Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple > Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html > Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html > FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ > -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/