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Date: Mon, 31 Mar 2003 20:19:28 -0500
From: Peter Davis <pd AT world DOT std DOT com>
To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com
Subject: Re: Aliases no longer defined?
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On Mon, 31 Mar 2003 18:15:13 -0500
Rolf Campbell <rcampbell AT tropicnetworks DOT com> wrote:

> Peter Davis wrote:
> > I recently switched from Windows NT4 and Windows 2000 to Windows XP.  I
> > installed cygwin freshly on both systems.  Now I'm noticing that on both
> > systems, .bashrc seems to be completely ignored.  I haven't changed this
> > file at all, but suddenly the aliases I define and export are not
> > defined when I try to type them at the shell prompt.
> > 
> > If I do
> > 
> > 	source ~/.bashrc
> > 
> > it works without error, but the aliases are *still* not defined.  I
> > noticed by running 'cygcheck -s' that the new systems seem to have DLL
> > build 1.3.22 (3/18/2003), while the older ones were running build 1.3.20
> > (2/18/2003).  However, nothing else has changed.  This used to work, but
> > now doesn't.
> > 
> > Any clues?
> > 
> > Thanks,
> > 
> > -pd
> 
> What does your /etc/passwd look like?


It's got a bunch of entries: SYSTEM, Administrators, Administrator, Guest, pdavis, etc.

What should I be looking for?

Thanks,

-pd


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