Tried a couple of things on the two machines (thanks to Andrew Markebo) ls -l /bin/sh
----------+ 1 ???????? Domain U 69632 Jul 31 2002 /bin/sh (non working) -rwxrwxrwx 1 Administ Users 69632 Jul 31 2002 /bin/sh (working) Any more ideas joolz ps. This happens on two machines connected to the network -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/