bash and temp

One Angry User angry@lusers.org
Wed Jan 19 16:29:00 GMT 2005


On Wed, 19 Jan 2005, Dave Korn wrote:

> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: cygwin-talk-owner On Behalf Of Guy Przytula
> > Sent: 19 January 2005 01:31
>
> > when opening bash window I get : warning: could not find /tmp, please
> > create!
> > I can see different tmp directories below cygwin.
> > Any specific bash is looking for ?
> > Any help is accepted
> > Best Regards, Guy Przytula
>
>   How dare you make an on-topic post on this list!?  That's off-topic!
>
>   However, it sounds like you've got mountpoint troubles.  Did you
> perhaps run setup.exe to install "Just for me", but now you've changed
> to a different user name?  If so, you'd need to re-run setup and specify
> "For all users" this time. Or you could probably play with the magic
> "mount -m | sed " command, but I can't remember it off the top of my
> head.
>
>   If that doesn't help, you should follow the instructions at
> http://cygwin.com/problems, and post to the main cygwin list instead of
> the talk list.

...And you forgot to redirect the reply to the main list, thereby
polluting the off-topic list even more with an on-topic reply to an
on-topic question.  I'm onto you, DaveK!

OAU



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