Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@sourceware.cygnus.com; run by ezmlm List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@sources.redhat.com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin@sources.redhat.com From: "Gerrit P. Haase" Organization: Esse keine toten Tiere To: "'cygwin@cygwin.com'" Date: Sat, 30 Dec 2000 18:54:44 +0100 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-transfer-encoding: 7BIT Subject: Re: Cygwin Bash shell start Reply-to: gerrit.haase@t-online.de Message-ID: <3A4E2F74.12705.E9B1DD2@localhost> In-reply-to: <4.3.1.2.20001230121214.02136d18@pop.ma.ultranet.com> References: <3A4CBE6F.63963D62@yahoo.com> X-mailer: Pegasus Mail for Win32 (v3.12cDE) <30 Dec 2000, 12:13 Uhr wars, als Larry Hall (RFK Partners, Inc folgendes schrub:> < Re: Cygwin Bash shell start > > At 11:40 AM 12/29/2000, Earnie Boyd wrote: > >"McCann, Brian" wrote: > > > > > > Hi, > > > I just installed the latest version and when I start the Cygwin bash shell > > > from the start\program files menu > > > I get this message " I have no name.@Erin~ " . How do I correct this in my > > > .profile? > > > >The PS1 variable is set in your /etc/profile file. The command `id -un' > >can't figure out your name so you get "I have no name." as the USER. > >This can be fixed by creating an appropriate entry for the uid given by > >`id -u' in the /etc/passwd file. [...] > > This is starting to look like FAQ fodder to me. David, do you think you > can add an entry for this? I wonder, why all these people got these problems now. As i installed cygwin the last time, a few weeks ago, i started by clicking on cygwin.bat then i had a name... -- =^..^= Gerrit Peter Haase ID: 0x28A05137 FP: 875C 745E 01CF 8A34 2767 BE39 305E 5261 28A0 5137 -- Want to unsubscribe from this list? Check out: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple