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Date: Fri, 09 Nov 2001 16:12:09 -0500
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From: rotaiv <rotaiv AT biapo DOT com>
Subject: Re: What does setup.exe do with a DOS console?
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At 11/09/2001  03:27 PM, GregHolmes AT aol DOT com wrote:

>This is NOT the usual "change the PIF file, stupid" question.  The 
>shortcuts I use to _run_ Cygwin are set to suggest MSDOS mode as 
>necessary.  This happens only during the setup.exe process.
>
>When I run setup.exe from the link at cygwin.com, right before the end of 
>the installation it very rapidly pops up an msdos console which vanishes 
>immediately, then the final OK dialog appears.
>
>This happens, at any rate, on the Win95 machine I use at work.  On the 
>Win98 machine at home, I get the "This program uses MSDOS mode" prompt at 
>that point, which I of course cancel out of.  So am I missing out on 
>something that is supposed to happen at this point?  I still get the final 
>"Installation complete" OK dialog.
>
>-Greg H.

This is just a guess but I when I installed from scratch (NT 4 SP6a) and 
included OpenSSH, a DOS window popped up and ran the "mkpasswd -l" and 
"mkgroup -l" commands.  This was run from a batch file and was saved as 
"\cygwin\etc\postinstall\passwd-grp.bat.done".

If you installed OpenSSH, check your /etc directory and see if you have a 
passwd file.

Like I said, just a guess - I'm very new to cygwin myself.

rotaiv.


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