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 Message-ID: <000701c32054$aa2b1e00$6fc82486@medschool.dundee.ac.uk> Reply-To: From: To: Cc: Subject: Re: Command Prompt on Cygwin Date: Thu, 22 May 2003 12:24:09 +0100 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2800.1165 > When I install Cygwin from kernel.org I get > prompt as "bash2.05". This sounds more like a consequence of a setup failure (possibly recoverable: maybe an interrupted update or something) than just a non-optimal prompt. Can you see whether the file {c:\Cygwin}\etc\setup\installed.db {or wherever}still exists; also do you have files c:\Cygwin\etc\passwd and c:\Cygwin\etc\group? If all of these are present, why not try running http://cygwin.com/setup.exe again? The setup process should be able to infer from the contents of the file installed.db that you've been there before, and it will just offer any relevant updates. It will also remount your Cygwin system if necessary (which your current prompt suggests it might be). Fergus -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/