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Re: bash doesn't find /tmp


Antonio Nicolosi wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I installed cygwin on Windows 2000, as the
> Administrator user, and everything works fine
> when I log in as Administrator.  When I log in
> as a regular user, though, things don't work:
> when I run the cygwin scripts that invokes bash,
> the shell pops up saying:
>
> bash.exe: warning: could not find /tmp, please create!
>
> then, bash cannot find any command, and doesn't even
> understand ls!
>
> Any suggestion would be greatly appreciated.

You installed for 'Just Me' as Administrator.

Re-run the setup program as Administrator, and change that setting. (You do
*not* need to uninstall. Just run setup, and carry on stepping through to
the end, at which point setup will probably say "Nothing needed to be
installed". It should then work.



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