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On 9/24/2015 1:29 PM, Achim Gratz wrote:
Marco Atzeri writes:the bug is in the /etc/postinstall/base-files-mketc.sh of base-files-4.2-3 -------------------------------------------- FILES="hosts protocols services networks" OSNAME="$(/usr/bin/uname -s)" WINETC="$(/usr/bin/cygpath -S -u)/drivers/etc" [cut] for mketc in ${FILES} do if [ ! -e "/etc/${mketc}" -a ! -L "/etc/${mketc}" ] then /usr/bin/ln -s -v "${WINETC}/${mketc}" "/etc/${mketc}" fi done -------------------------------------------- As on my systems the bug is not present, it can be a relative recent introduction.I've introduced this bug inadvertently when releasing base-files-4.1. I'll fix it towards the weekend.
As long as you're updating base-files anyway, maybe you could implement one of the previously-discussed proposals for showing a prompt of "#" instead of "$" in shells with sufficient privileges. Unfortunately, I don't remember if there was ever a consensus reached on exactly how that should be done.
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