Thread: Cygwin configuration trouble

Hi!

I have downloaded and installed cygwin on a windows XP machine. I have used
Johan Faxer's document on configuring cygwin.

Why don't my commands like ls -la work?
How can I make sure that unix commands in the cygwin bash shell work normally?
How do I place cygwin/bin in the winXP path? Might that be my problem?

I have used the net user postgres /homedir:"$(cygpath -w /home/postgres)"
command but NO c:\cygwin\home\postgres folder is created? What am I doing
wrong?

TIA

Godfrey

On Thu, Feb 17, 2005 at 11:27:40AM +0300, Sarah, Godfrey, Matthew & Vera wrote:

> How do I place cygwin/bin in the winXP path? Might that be my problem?

It might.  Control Panel | System | Advanced | Environment Variables.


> I have used the net user postgres /homedir:"$(cygpath -w /home/postgres)"
> command but NO c:\cygwin\home\postgres folder is created? What am I doing
> wrong?

Perhaps the user you're logged in as when running the command doesn't have
permissions to create that directory?  Try making it manually.

--Dan

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