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Re: Files in /etc missing after new install
- From: John Morrison <john at morrison dot mine dot nu>
- To: "BUEHL,REINER (HP-Germany,ex1)" <reiner dot buehl at hp dot com>
- Cc: cygwin at cygwin dot com
- Date: Tue, 30 Sep 2003 15:51:54 +0100 (BST)
- Subject: Re: Files in /etc missing after new install
- References: <FFE5E286773CD411873400D0B747AC580E094186@goedel.bbn.hp.com>
>From a bash prompt
/etc/postinstall/base-files-mketc.sh.done
/etc/postinstall/base-files-profile.sh.done
should create them, if the files don't exist with a .done
extension then postinstall wasn't called. If they don't
exist then you didn't install the base-files package.
J.
On Tue, 30 Sep 2003, BUEHL,REINER (HP-Germany,ex1) wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> I just installed cygwin (Setup.exe v2.415). The installation went fine, no
> errors, but all the files that should have been created during the
> postinstall step are missing. There is no /etc/profile, no /etc/passwd, no
> /etc/group and so on.
> Can anybody help me to fix this? I already reinstalled twice... :-(
>
> Best regards,
> Reiner.
>
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