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From: "Mike Maxwell" <maxwell AT ldc DOT upenn DOT edu>
Subject: Re: no longer administrator, can't mkdir /foo
Date: Fri, 10 Oct 2003 09:13:44 -0400
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This is for anyone else who reads this thread, looking for a solution.


Mike Maxwell wrote:
> Short of re-installing CygWin, is there a fix to all this mess?

In the end, that's what I did: a new install.  Unfortunately, I haven't
found every package that I had installed previously, so there are things
that are broken: apropos doesn't always work, some man pages are missing
(probably the same problem), some binaries are missing.  I install things as
I find I need them.  I *wish* there were a way to find out everything that I
had installed, some kind of database that CygWin would maintain, and which I
could copy to my new install directory.  Sigh...

    Mike Maxwell




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