Problem after fresh Cygwin installation

Bernd Bartmann bernd.bartmann@gmail.com
Sat Jul 14 18:52:00 GMT 2007


On 7/14/07, Christopher Faylor
<cgf-use-the-mailinglist-please@cygwin.com> wrote:
> On Sat, Jul 14, 2007 at 07:07:15AM -0500, Ren? Berber wrote:
> >Bernd Bartmann wrote:
> >
> >> On 7/14/07, Stephen Barclay <barclay@call-em-all.net> wrote:
> >>> Probably a type on the OP's part but...
> >>>
> >>> mkpasswd -l > /etc/passwd
> >>> *mkgroup -l > /etc/passwd
> >>> *
> >>> Shouldn't the above be  mkgroup -i > /etc/groups  ???
> >>
> >> What do you think shall -i do? For me there is no -i option in mkgroup:
> >
> >Just change the output, `mkgroup -l > /etc/group` .
>
> i.e., the -i was a typo.  The real point was that you were outputting to
> the wrong file.

Ok, so we were both making just typos. Of course I was redirecting the
output to /etc/group. I'll double check the other suggestions on
Monday when I'm back to the office.

Best regards,
Bernd.

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