Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin@cygwin.com Date: Mon, 31 Mar 2003 23:11:07 -0500 From: Peter Davis To: cygwin@cygwin.com Subject: Re: Aliases no longer defined? Message-Id: <20030331231107.00002e91.pdavis@pageflexinc.com> In-Reply-To: References: <20030331175916.000005c8.pd@world.std.com> <20030331201928.00001bd5.pd@world.std.com> Organization: Pageflex Inc. Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit On Mon, 31 Mar 2003 20:57:14 -0500 Rolf Campbell wrote: > Peter Davis wrote: > > On Mon, 31 Mar 2003 18:15:13 -0500 > > Rolf Campbell 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? I don't know. Is there anything in there that would permit some enterprising hacker to breech my security? Thanks, -pd -- -------- Peter Davis Pageflex Inc 617-520-8345 215 First Street 617-868-0784 (FAX) Cambridge, MA 02142 pdavis@pageflexinc.com http://www.pageflexinc.com -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Bug reporting: http://cygwin.com/bugs.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/