Date: Tue, 8 Jan 2008 14:26:42 -0800 (PST)
From: Daniel So <so_whing AT yahoo DOT com>
Subject: Re: Cygwin install not setting paths
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Hi Larry

As suggested, I tried re-running the setup.exe but the results were still the same. So I tried going to " and /etc/postinstall". All files there ended in ".done". The files there were:
00ash.sh.done00bash.sh.donebase-files-mketc.sh.donebase-files-profile.sh.donebzip2.sh.donecoreutils.sh.donecygwin-doc.sh.donefindutils.sh.doneman.sh.donepasswd-grp.sh.donetar.sh.doneterminfo.sh.doneupdate-info-dir.sh.donewhich.sh.done
Do you know if there are suppose to be any others? I re-ran these scripts anyways but did not know what order to do so, so I ran them in the order shown. Opening a new cygwin session, I get the prompt that I think I should be getting and the path is recognized but I now get this message.

Your group name is currently "mkgroup_l_d". This idicates that not
all domain users and groups are listed in the /etc/passwd and /etc/group files.
See the man pages for mkpasswd and mkgroup then, for example, run
mkpasswd -l -d > /etc/passwd
mkdroup -l -d > /etc/group
This message is only displayed once (unless you recreate /etc/group)
and can be safely ignored.
cp: cannot create regular file '/cygdrive/c/group.mkgroup_l_d': Permission denied

I did not do the mkpasswd and mkgroup commands as I did not know what they would do.
Should I open the permissions on any folders? I am suppose to have adminastrator rights on this system.
Any others suggestions here,
Thanks for your help,
Daniel

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Sounds like at least some of your postinstall scripts didn't run.  Either
rerun 'setup.exe' and just page through without selecting anything to let
'setup.exe' run them for you or go to '/etc/postinstall' and run any
script there that doesn't end in '.done'.  If you do the latter, it's
best to append '.done' to the script names once you've run them, just
so it's obvious to everyone that they were run.


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----- Original Message ----
From: Daniel So <so_whing AT yahoo DOT com>
To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com
Sent: Monday, January 7, 2008 5:16:28 PM
Subject: Cygwin install not setting paths

To whom it may concern

I have done several cygwin installs on both Windows XP and Vista systems. However this latest install on a Windows Vista 32-bit system, resulting cygwin windows is not giving me the same results. There are several differences, such as;
1. Path variable is not set to see "/usr/local/bin", "/usr/bin", "/usr/X11R6/bin", or "." 
2. Resulting window is set at "/usr/bin" not in my $HOME directory.

Has anybody seen this situation before? If so, what can be done to correct it?

Thank you
Daniel


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