RE: thanks and next problem: how to chown root ?

[Suhaib Siddiqi <ssiddiqi at inspirepharm dot com>]

> Thanks to Reini, Harold and George for their help.
> Using IE instead of Netscape solved the problem with bunzip2.
> 
> tar xf ... worked well, with one exception:
> tar xf xfree...devel.tar reported error "Cannot open: No such 
> file or directory"
> when it tried to install usr/X11R6/lib/X11/xserver and ../xsm 
> (are these files or links ?).
> 
> Is this serious ?
> 

NO


> Anyway, startwin.bat does not work. 
> It opens briefly two MSDOS windows in the
> second of which I have hardly enough time to read:
> Couldn´t open RGB_DB ´/usr/.../rbg´
> ... Owner of /tmp/.X11-unix should be set to root.

Something is wrong with your installation.  Did you install everything
\cygwin\usr\X11R6?
Post your startxwin.bat file,a s well as your installation path.


> 
> What shall I do ?
> 
> Presently, my cygwin prompt assumes I am "administrator", 
> and so is the name of the owner of all files.
> chown root /tmp/.X11-unix does not work ("invalid user")

It is a warning and you can ignore it.  It has been discussed
several times on the mailing list.

> 
> - Joachim
>