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Re: Strange delays - need to recompile bash for latest snapshot?
- To: Corinna Vinschen <corinna at vinschen dot de>
- Subject: Re: Strange delays - need to recompile bash for latest snapshot?
- From: "Philip Aston" <philipa at parallax dot co dot uk>
- Date: Tue, 28 Sep 1999 13:25:02 +0100 (GMTST0GMTDT-1,M3.5.0/2,M10.5.0/3)
- Cc: cygwin at sourceware dot cygnus dot com
- References: <14315.44519.82000.190716@parallax.co.uk><37EF7B32.26D28497@vinschen.de>
Corinna Vinschen writes:
> Hi Philip,
>
> maybe the name philipa is used in /etc/passwd but it's not
> your true NT login name?
AFAICT it is - what's the definitive way of asking NT? I think its in
a different NT domain that I only sync with when I dial up, would this
be the problem?
> This results in such problems when CYGWIN=ntsec is set and it's set
> by default.
>
> You don't have to compile bash. It has nothing to do with
> this phenomenon.
Good.
Did I even have to install the "inst" distribution? Whats the miniumum
needed with a new snapshot?
> There are two possible solutions,
>
> either edit your /etc/passwd and /etc/group files to let them
> reflect your NT user and group settings as much as possible
> (don't use abbreviations of the true login names!)
>
> or set CYGWIN=nontsec.
I did this. Or rather "CYGWIN=tty nontsec", which I assume to be the
same thing.
Appears to be fine now, thanks for your help.
- Phil
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