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Subject: Re: mkpasswd -l and mkgroup -l results: [1722]: The RPC server is unavailable
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On Jan 30 22:39, Kenneth Wolcott wrote:
> Hi;
> 
> mkpasswd -l /etc/passwd and mkgroup -l /etc/group results: [1722]: The
> RPC server is unavailable

The User's Guide may help:

http://cygwin.com/cygwin-ug-net/using-utils.html#mkgroup
http://cygwin.com/cygwin-ug-net/using-utils.html#mkpasswd

Try `mkpasswd -l > /etc/passwd'.  Otherwise /etc/passwd is treated as
argument to the -l option.

> Is this a result of Cygwin not being formally supported for 64-bit WIndows?

Who on earth told you that?  See http://cygwin.com/


Corinna

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