problems with cygwin after setup

Larry Hall (RFK Partners, Inc.) lhall@rfk.com
Wed Mar 12 04:46:00 GMT 2003


Igor Pechtchanski wrote:
> On Tue, 11 Mar 2003 you (whoever you are) wrote:
> 
> 
>>After I installed more program under cygwin I have the following problems
>>
>>1.) can't get manual pages man man says no entry
>>2.) w3m crashes with "Can't find termcap entry cygwin"
>>3.) after starting cygwin I get
>>/usr/share/texmf/ls-R: Permission denied
>>/usr/share/texmf/aliases: Permission denied
>>   even if I don't use a .bashrc
>>
>>Any help? Why does system corrupt my cygwin installation.
>>Franz
> 
> 
> cd / && chmod -R a+r bin lib sbin usr etc tmp var && chmod -R a+x bin sbin usr/sbin usr/local/bin lib/gcc-lib/*.exe usr/X11R6/bin
> 
> This is getting to be an FAQ...
> 	Igor


True.  Isn't the upcoming release of setup and/or Cygwin 1.3.21 supposed
to fix this though?

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