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Re: setup clobbers passwd
- To: Jerrad Pierce <belg4mit at MIT dot EDU>
- Subject: Re: setup clobbers passwd
- From: "Gerrit P. Haase" <gerrit at familiehaase dot de>
- Date: Fri, 26 Oct 2001 18:25:02 +0200
- CC: cygwin at cygwin dot com
- Organization: convey Information Systems GmbH
- References: <200110261510.LAA23742@cab-calloway.mit.edu>
- Reply-To: "Gerrit P. Haase" <cygwin at cygwin dot com>
Hallo Jerrad,
2001-10-26 18:11:59, du schriebst:
>>It doesn't, I run setup every day...
> Maybe I should be more clear...
> I use tcsh so I set my dshell to /bin/tcsh.
> Every single time I run setup it replaces the line in /etc/passwd
> and turns /bin/tcsh into /bin/bash
Well, why should this happen?
I changed my /etc/passwd to:
$ cat /etc/passwd | grep Gerrit
Gerrit::11002:10513:Gerrit Haase,S-1-5-21-511208647-1358714506-1167487308-1002:/home/Gerrit:/bin/tcsh
Now run setup:
$ /bin/setup.exe
Hey, what the hell, why can't I choose the drive to install from
anymore??
$ /cygdrive/p/instsoft/NewCD/SaveCygwin/cygwin/setup.exe
I just reinstalled clear package (the big one;)
$ cat /etc/passwd | grep Gerrit
Gerrit::11002:10513:Gerrit Haase,S-1-5-21-511208647-1358714506-1167487308-1002:/home/Gerrit:/bin/tcsh
So where is the difference?
Is it a difference on Win98? I don't know.
Gerrit
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