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Date: Fri, 26 Oct 2001 07:24:31 +0200
From: "Gerrit P. Haase" <gp AT familiehaase DOT de>
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Hallo belg4mit,

Am 2001-10-26 um 03:32 schriebst du:

> Why does running setup to install a new cygwin base clobber /etc/passwd
> ?

It doesn't, I run setup every day...

$ ls -l /etc/passwd
-rwxrwxrwx    1 Administ Administ     1652 Sep 29 23:25 /etc/passwd*

Siebenschlaefer AT LORELEY /stuff/devel
$ ls -l /etc/group
-rwxrwxrwx    1 Administ Administ      272 Sep 29 23:26 /etc/group*

Ciao,

Gerrit P. Haase                            mailto:gp AT familiehaase DOT de
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