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From: Harald Kierer <Harald DOT Kierer AT astrum DOT de>
To: "'Val Schmidt'" <vschmidt AT ldeo DOT columbia DOT edu>,
   "'cygwin'" <cygwin AT cygwin DOT com>
Subject: Re: upgrading broke cygwin?
Date: 	Mon, 24 Feb 2003 14:53:36 +0100
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Val Schmidt [mailto:vschmidt AT ldeo DOT columbia DOT edu]
> Sent: Monday, February 24, 2003 2:43 PM
> To: 'Elfyn McBratney'; 'cygwin'
> Subject: RE: Re: upgrading broke cygwin?
> 
> 
> I appreciate the help.  
> 
> It's not clear to me why either mkpasswd or mkgroup in my 
> home directory
> would cause the effects I and others have been seeing with the latest
> version of cygwin. 
> 
> At any rate, here's the results of my ls -al on my home directory.  No
> mkpasswd or mkgroup.  
> 
> -Val
> 
> $ ls -al
> total 11492
> drwxrwxr-x+  15 Administ Administ        0 Feb 23 14:33 ./
> drwxrwxr-x+   3 Administ Administ        0 Jan 28 15:40 ../
> -rw-rw----    1 Administ Administ     4518 Feb 21 16:57 .bash_history
> -rw-r--r--    1 Val Schm None          596 Feb 20 15:54 .bash_profile

"Val Schm". Your username has a space. no good. Maybe give this a try:
http://sources.redhat.com/ml/cygwin/2003-02/msg01366.html

bye,
 harry

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