Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help AT cygwin DOT com; run by ezmlm List-Subscribe: <mailto:cygwin-subscribe AT cygwin DOT com> List-Archive: <http://sourceware.org/ml/cygwin/> List-Post: <mailto:cygwin AT cygwin DOT com> List-Help: <mailto:cygwin-help AT cygwin DOT com>, <http://sourceware.org/ml/#faqs> Sender: cygwin-owner AT cygwin DOT com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin AT cygwin DOT com From: "Gary R. Van Sickle" <g DOT r DOT vansickle AT worldnet DOT att DOT net> To: <cygwin AT cygwin DOT com> Subject: alternatives Date: Fri, 4 Nov 2005 01:04:17 -0600 Message-ID: <001a01c5e10d$f92ae6d0$020aa8c0@DFW5RB41> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-IsSubscribed: yes This shouldn't be happening, should it?: $ ls -l /var/lib/alternatives total 2 -rwx------+ 1 GaryV None 103 Jul 4 23:15 automake -rwx------+ 1 GaryV None 420 Jul 11 18:07 libpng $ /usr/sbin/alternatives --config libpng failed to read /var/lib/alternatives/libpng: No error $ /usr/sbin/alternatives --config automake failed to read /var/lib/alternatives/automake: No error This is with snapshot 20051103 21:02:10, but this is the first time I've ever tried to use alternatives, so that could have nothing to do with anything. -- Gary R. Van Sickle -- 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/