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-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ To: cygwin@cygwin.com From: "Mike Maxwell" Subject: Re: no longer administrator, can't mkdir /foo Date: Fri, 10 Oct 2003 09:13:44 -0400 Lines: 17 Message-ID: References: X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Newsreader: Microsoft Outlook Express 6.00.2800.1158 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2800.1165 This is for anyone else who reads this thread, looking for a solution. Mike Maxwell wrote: > Short of re-installing CygWin, is there a fix to all this mess? In the end, that's what I did: a new install. Unfortunately, I haven't found every package that I had installed previously, so there are things that are broken: apropos doesn't always work, some man pages are missing (probably the same problem), some binaries are missing. I install things as I find I need them. I *wish* there were a way to find out everything that I had installed, some kind of database that CygWin would maintain, and which I could copy to my new install directory. Sigh... Mike Maxwell -- 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/