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Date: Wed, 03 Oct 2001 11:46:41 EDT
To: cygwin <cygwin AT cygwin DOT com>
Subject: Moving cygwin to W2k from Win95
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From: Brian Keener <bkeener AT thesoftwaresource DOT com>
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I just got a new Win2000 laptop and have been trying to get my Cygwin up and 
running on it and now I have several questions.

I simply copied it across the network from my Win95 laptop and then made sure 
my mount points were set properly, but on the Win95 setup I had the login 
working so that I entered an ID and password to get to a bash shell instead of 
just going to a bash shell.  On Win2000 I have been unable to get this to work 
and I have searched the Web sites and I have tried the mkpasswd -l, mkpasswd 
-d, mkgroup and such and still no login - I have to simply use the bash shell 
from the cygwin batch file.

The other problem I have is then if I try to do a man (ie a man login or any 
other command) I get an error similar to:

briank AT FPC_ATL_BKNB ~
$ man login
Formatting page, please wait...
Error executing formatting or display command.
System command (cd /usr/man ; (echo -e ".pl 1100i"; cat /usr/man/man1/login.1; 
e
cho ".pl \n(nlu+10") | /usr/bin/tbl | /usr/bin/groff -Tascii -mandoc | gzip > 
/u
sr/man/cat1/login.1.gz) exited with status 32512.

briank AT FPC_ATL_BKNB ~
$


I had my login working so it set the path and home just like on a real Unix 
machine when it was on Win95 but I can't seem to get that back on Win2000.  Any 
suggestions and also what is wrong with the Man.

Do I need to do a full reinstall of my installation?

Any pointers greatly appreciated.

bk




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