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RE: man.conf missing after cygwin upgrade
- From: <FischRon dot external at infineon dot com>
- To: <cygwin at cygwin dot com>
- Date: Mon, 11 Jul 2005 16:27:40 +0200
- Subject: RE: man.conf missing after cygwin upgrade
> > I did the variation with "-l -c" to recreate /etc/passwd,
> because "-d"
> > would hang the shell.
>
> It doesn't hang, just takes very very long in large domains. What you
> want is "mkpasswd -d -u YOURUSERNAME >> /etc/passwd". Though
> I believe
> "mkpasswd -c" already does that without the need to query the domain.
Do I really *need* -d? On first setup of Cygwin, the whole Domain wasn't
searched either. I tried "-d" on mkgroup once (where it goes slightly
faster),
and it ended up with a group file of about 30000 entries!
> But don't do that if you have a large domain... Unless you
> just want to
> leave it to complete overnight.
I don't think I want it. I just don't see what advantage it has. And,
after all, that information is outdated the next day anyway, because
there are continuously systems coming and going.
Ronald
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