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 X-Authentication-Warning: slinky.cs.nyu.edu: pechtcha owned process doing -bs Date: Tue, 23 Sep 2003 12:13:30 -0400 (EDT) From: Igor Pechtchanski Reply-To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com To: "Hughes, Bill" cc: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Subject: RE: Cygwin 1.5.5 Configuration problem In-Reply-To: <4989AFD7505BD611961B0002A5DA3E740382BE2B@NNHML2> Message-ID: References: <4989AFD7505BD611961B0002A5DA3E740382BE2B AT NNHML2> Importance: Normal MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII On Tue, 23 Sep 2003, Hughes, Bill wrote: > Sent: 23 September 2003 16:20 From: Igor Pechtchanski > > > > Look at the logs (/var/log/setup.log{,.full}). Did "base-files" get > > installed? > > Igor > > No. It's not in the cygcheck output either. Weird, I selected install for > 'all' in setup and then de-selected ghostscript as I was playing with that > and Redmon at the time, I have no idea how "base-files" was set to "skip" > but it was. > I suppose it's "mea culpa" but I really have no idea how, apologies all, and > thanks for the patience. > I don't know if I should mention it but I've (re-)installed base-files and > man still doesn't work. > > Thank you again Igor, for your help. "base-files" will not replace your /etc/passwd if you already have one. Try "cp -fp /etc/defaults/etc/profile /etc/profile", and see if that fixes your "man" problem. Igor -- http://cs.nyu.edu/~pechtcha/ |\ _,,,---,,_ pechtcha AT cs DOT nyu DOT edu ZZZzz /,`.-'`' -. ;-;;,_ igor AT watson DOT ibm DOT com |,4- ) )-,_. ,\ ( `'-' Igor Pechtchanski, Ph.D. '---''(_/--' `-'\_) fL a.k.a JaguaR-R-R-r-r-r-.-.-. Meow! "I have since come to realize that being between your mentor and his route to the bathroom is a major career booster." -- Patrick Naughton -- 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/