X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org From: "Dave Korn" To: Subject: RE: Cygwin-installed /etc/profile supplied appears to be DOS-type text file Date: Sun, 26 Nov 2006 22:21:25 -0000 Message-ID: <004c01c711a9$3671a070$a501a8c0@CAM.ARTIMI.COM> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: Microsoft Office Outlook 11 In-Reply-To: Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help AT cygwin DOT com; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Id: List-Unsubscribe: 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 On 26 November 2006 14:33, Rex Godby wrote: > After updating Cygwin today (26 November 2006), the installed version of > /etc/profile appeared to become a DOS-type text file rather than a Unix-type > text file. That caused severe problems (e.g. "unknown command") when > starting up the Cygwin login shell. Correcting the file type back to Unix > seems to have solved the problem. There aint no CRs in the one I just downloaded: /tmp $ wget http://www.mirrorservice.org/sites/sourceware.org/pub/cygwin/releas e/base-files/base-files-3.7-1.tar.bz2 --22:17:29-- http://www.mirrorservice.org/sites/sourceware.org/pub/cygwin/relea se/base-files/base-files-3.7-1.tar.bz2 => `base-files-3.7-1.tar.bz2' Resolving www.mirrorservice.org... 212.219.56.135, 212.219.56.133, 212.219.56.13 4 Connecting to www.mirrorservice.org[212.219.56.135]:80... connected. HTTP request sent, awaiting response... 200 OK Length: 35,398 [application/x-tar] 100%[====================================>] 35,398 170.29K/s 22:17:30 (170.29 KB/s) - `base-files-3.7-1.tar.bz2' saved [35398/35398] @_______. . ( /"\ ||--||(___) '" '"'---' /tmp $ bunzip2 base-files-3.7-1.tar.bz2 @_______. . ( /"\ ||--||(___) '" '"'---' /tmp $ tar xfv base-files-3.7-1.tar etc/ etc/defaults/ etc/defaults/etc/ etc/defaults/etc/bash.bashrc etc/defaults/etc/profile etc/defaults/etc/profile.d/ etc/defaults/etc/skel/ etc/defaults/etc/skel/.bashrc etc/defaults/etc/skel/.bash_profile etc/defaults/etc/skel/.inputrc etc/postinstall/ etc/postinstall/base-files-mketc.sh etc/postinstall/base-files-profile.sh etc/preremove/ etc/preremove/base-files-manifest.lst etc/preremove/base-files.sh etc/skel/ usr/ usr/share/ usr/share/doc/ usr/share/doc/base-files/ usr/share/doc/base-files/ChangeLog usr/share/doc/base-files/README usr/share/doc/common-licenses/ usr/share/doc/common-licenses/AFL-1.1 usr/share/doc/common-licenses/AFL-1.2 usr/share/doc/common-licenses/AFL-2.0 usr/share/doc/common-licenses/AFL-2.1 usr/share/doc/common-licenses/AFL usr/share/doc/common-licenses/Apache-1.0 usr/share/doc/common-licenses/Apache-1.1 usr/share/doc/common-licenses/Apache-2.0 usr/share/doc/common-licenses/Apache usr/share/doc/common-licenses/Artistic usr/share/doc/common-licenses/BSD usr/share/doc/common-licenses/GPL-2 usr/share/doc/common-licenses/GPL-2.0 usr/share/doc/common-licenses/GPL usr/share/doc/common-licenses/LGPL-2 usr/share/doc/common-licenses/LGPL-2.0 usr/share/doc/common-licenses/LGPL-2.1 usr/share/doc/common-licenses/LGPL usr/share/doc/common-licenses/MIT usr/share/doc/common-licenses/PHP-3.0 @_______. . ( /"\ ||--||(___) '" '"'---' /tmp $ wc -c /etc/defaults/etc/profile 6533 /etc/defaults/etc/profile @_______. . ( /"\ ||--||(___) '" '"'---' /tmp $ cat /etc/defaults/etc/profile | tr -d '\015' | wc -c 6533 @_______. . ( /"\ ||--||(___) '" '"'---' /tmp $ Is it possible you've made local modifications to your /etc/profile, so it no longer gets upgraded by setup.exe? cheers, DaveK -- Can't think of a witty .sigline today.... -- 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/