Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help AT cygwin DOT com; run by ezmlm List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner AT cygwin DOT com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Message-ID: <4989AFD7505BD611961B0002A5DA3E740382BE2A@NNHML2> From: "Hughes, Bill" To: "'cygwin AT cygwin DOT com'" Subject: RE: Cygwin 1.5.5 Configuration problem Date: Tue, 23 Sep 2003 15:53:04 +0100 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Sent: 23 September 2003 15:26 From: Igor Pechtchanski > On Tue, 23 Sep 2003, Hughes, Bill wrote: > > Why is it I always find the problem after I post? > > There was no /etc/profile in my installation. > > I copied one from another machine and my installation appears OK, except for > > the man problem. > > I don't know if /etc/profile is mssing from the distribution or something > > happened to mine. > > Bill, > > Did you install the "base-files" package? The postinstall script should > have created an /etc/profile for you (by copying it from > /etc/defaults/etc/profile). If it failed, there should be a message in > /var/log/setup.log.full (unless you ran setup after that, in which case > that file will have been overwritten). > Igor It was a fresh installation so yes I had to install "base-files" (about the only thing I didn't install was ghostscript). I had to change mirrors while downloading to a local folder, but this was separate - I rebooted and then installed from my local mirror. I've just looked and I don't have a /etc/defaults folder. I suppose this means a re-install? -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/