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Re: Bash Window Geometry


> ...
> You do know that you can have your own mounts pointing
to wherever *you*
> want (in effect, having a separate Cygwin 
installation)?

Wow.  I never thought about that.  Hmmm. Most
interesting.

> If theirs is
> missing /etc/passwd, it's seriously broken anyway.

Good point!

> I forget, did you ever attach the output of "cygcheck -svr" (as an
> uncompressed text attachment) as requested in the Cygwin problem reporting
> guidelines at <http://cygwin.com/problems.html>?  If not, you should do it
> so that we have enough details about your installation(s) to try
> diagnosing the problems.

Thanks for the tip.  I'll do that.

> > I decided to take matters into my own hands.  I installed cygwin on my
> > network drive and specified vi and some other stuff, then set my PATH to
> > look at my installation after "their" installation.  It seems to work
> > ok.  I had to delete/move my cygwin1.dll so the system wouldn't freak
> > out.  The system preferred the cygwin1.dll that is part of the system
> > config, not my config (I hope that makes sense...).
> 
> Why not do the other way around?  Remove their installation from the PATH,
> add yours, issue the following commands (assuming your Cygwin is installed
> in H:\cygwin):
> 
> mount -ufb 'h:\cygwin' /
> mount -ufb 'h:\cygwin\bin' /usr/bin
> mount -ufb 'h:\cygwin\lib' /usr/lib
> 
> That way your install would be completely independent from theirs.

You're smart (recall Star Trek TNG episode when
Jordi <sp> was kidnapped because "he was smart"...).

My network quota is 200 MB, so, my plan was to install
the cygwin binaries that I needed and were missing
from the "organizational installation" so I could
have a "mean and lean" use of drive space.  Now that
you mention the separate installation thing, I
believe I can attach a USB drive to this machine.  If
I can do that, I will do a real cygwin install and
say phooey on them :) .  That will keep "them" happy
and make me very happy.

> I'm assuming you installed Cygwin from one machine and use it from
> another, otherwise installing for "just me" would have set up the proper
> mount entries already.  Again, the output of "cygcheck -svr" would have
> told us whether this is the case.

I just wanted a few cygwin binaries...

> > Do you see any problem with the /etc/passwd mismatch?
> 
> Yes.  Many things that rely on authentication and permissions will not
> work properly if certain usernames (including yours) are missing from
> /etc/passwd.  Your /etc/group will also need to be up-to-date.

But of course...  I think the USB drive install will
save the day...

> > I installed rxvt.  That solves the problem with the geometry thing.  I
> > am in my happy place now :) .
> 
> Until the problems start.  Let's try preventing them.  The first step
> would be to see what your and their installations look like (via the
> output of "cygcheck -svr").

Roger.

> ...

Thanks!  You're smart...

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