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Date: Tue, 30 Sep 2003 11:05:29 -0400 (EDT)
From: Igor Pechtchanski <pechtcha AT cs DOT nyu DOT edu>
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To: John Morrison <john AT morrison DOT mine DOT nu>
cc: "BUEHL,REINER (HP-Germany,ex1)" <reiner DOT buehl AT hp DOT com>, cygwin AT cygwin DOT com
Subject: Re: Files in /etc missing after new install
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Also
/etc/postinstall/passwd-grp.sh.done

which comes from the "base-passwd" package.
	Igor

On Tue, 30 Sep 2003, John Morrison wrote:

> From a bash prompt
> /etc/postinstall/base-files-mketc.sh.done
> /etc/postinstall/base-files-profile.sh.done
>
> should create them, if the files don't exist with a .done
> extension then postinstall wasn't called.  If they don't
> exist then you didn't install the base-files package.
>
> J.
>
> On Tue, 30 Sep 2003, BUEHL,REINER (HP-Germany,ex1) wrote:
>
> > Hi all,
> >
> > I just installed cygwin (Setup.exe v2.415). The installation went fine, no
> > errors, but all the files that should have been created during the
> > postinstall step are missing. There is no /etc/profile, no /etc/passwd, no
> > /etc/group and so on.
> > Can anybody help me to fix this? I already reinstalled twice... :-(
> >
> > Best regards,
> > Reiner.

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