Files in /etc missing after new install

John Morrison john@morrison.mine.nu
Tue Sep 30 15:05:00 GMT 2003


>From a bash prompt
/etc/postinstall/base-files-mketc.sh.done
/etc/postinstall/base-files-profile.sh.done

should create them, if the files don't exist with a .done
extension then postinstall wasn't called.  If they don't
exist then you didn't install the base-files package.

J.

On Tue, 30 Sep 2003, BUEHL,REINER (HP-Germany,ex1) wrote:

> Hi all,
>
> I just installed cygwin (Setup.exe v2.415). The installation went fine, no
> errors, but all the files that should have been created during the
> postinstall step are missing. There is no /etc/profile, no /etc/passwd, no
> /etc/group and so on.
> Can anybody help me to fix this? I already reinstalled twice... :-(
>
> Best regards,
> Reiner.
>
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