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Re: mkpasswd -l and mkgroup -l results: [1722]: The RPC server is unavailable
On Tue, Jan 31, 2012 at 00:58, Corinna Vinschen wrote:
> On Jan 30 22:39, Kenneth Wolcott wrote:
>> Hi;
>>
>> mkpasswd -l /etc/passwd and mkgroup -l /etc/group results: [1722]: The
>> RPC server is unavailable
>
> The User's Guide may help:
>
> http://cygwin.com/cygwin-ug-net/using-utils.html#mkgroup
> http://cygwin.com/cygwin-ug-net/using-utils.html#mkpasswd
>
> Try `mkpasswd -l > /etc/passwd'. ?Otherwise /etc/passwd is treated as
> argument to the -l option.
>
>> Is this a result of Cygwin not being formally supported for 64-bit WIndows?
>
> Who on earth told you that? ?See http://cygwin.com/
>
>
> Corinna
>
Oh my! :-)
My vision is really getting bad! I did not see that I missed the redirection.
Thank you for the gentle correction; it works fine now.
Sorry for the noise.
Ken
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