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Date: Tue, 30 Sep 2003 11:09:06 -0400 (EDT)
From: Igor Pechtchanski <pechtcha AT cs DOT nyu DOT edu>
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To: "BUEHL,REINER (HP-Germany,ex1)" <reiner DOT buehl AT hp DOT com>
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Subject: RE: Files in /etc missing after new install
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Reiner,

Please read and follow the problem reporting guidelines at
<http://cygwin.com/problems.html>, especially the bit about attaching (as
an uncompressed text *attachment*) the output of "cygcheck -svr".
	Igor

On Tue, 30 Sep 2003, BUEHL,REINER (HP-Germany,ex1) wrote:

> If I run /etc/postinstall/base-files-mketc.sh.done from bash promt I get
> the following error messages:
>
> /bin/uname: not found
> /bin/cygpath: not found
> Unknown system type ; exiting
>
> PATH is set to /bin:/usr/bin and "ls /bin" shows that uname.exe and
> cygpath.exe exist there. All files in /etc/postinstall have the .done
> extension and base-files package has been installed. Any ideas?
>
> Best regards,
> Reiner.
>
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: John Morrison [mailto:john AT morrison DOT mine DOT nu]
> > Sent: Tuesday, September 30, 2003 4:52 PM
> > To: BUEHL,REINER (HP-Germany,ex1)
> > Cc: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com
> > Subject: Re: Files in /etc missing after new install
> >
> >
> >
> > 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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