Aliases no longer defined?

Rolf Campbell rcampbell@tropicnetworks.com
Tue Apr 1 01:57:00 GMT 2003


Peter Davis wrote:
> On Mon, 31 Mar 2003 18:15:13 -0500
> Rolf Campbell <rcampbell@tropicnetworks.com> wrote:
> 
> 
>>Peter Davis wrote:
>>
>>>I recently switched from Windows NT4 and Windows 2000 to Windows XP.  I
>>>installed cygwin freshly on both systems.  Now I'm noticing that on both
>>>systems, .bashrc seems to be completely ignored.  I haven't changed this
>>>file at all, but suddenly the aliases I define and export are not
>>>defined when I try to type them at the shell prompt.
>>>
>>>If I do
>>>
>>>	source ~/.bashrc
>>>
>>>it works without error, but the aliases are *still* not defined.  I
>>>noticed by running 'cygcheck -s' that the new systems seem to have DLL
>>>build 1.3.22 (3/18/2003), while the older ones were running build 1.3.20
>>>(2/18/2003).  However, nothing else has changed.  This used to work, but
>>>now doesn't.
>>>
>>>Any clues?
>>>
>>>Thanks,
>>>
>>>-pd
>>
>>What does your /etc/passwd look like?
> 
> 
> 
> It's got a bunch of entries: SYSTEM, Administrators, Administrator, Guest, pdavis, etc.
> 
> What should I be looking for?
can you post the content?



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