Thank you so much for your help.
- Chris
Dave Korn wrote:
-----Original Message-----
From: cygwin-owner On Behalf Of Igor Pechtchanski
Sent: 22 March 2004 13:39
On Sun, 21 Mar 2004, Christopher M. Balz wrote:
I did run
"c:\cygwin\bin\bash --norc"
After a couple minutes the command prompt gave me:
C:\WINNT\SYSTEM32>c:\cygwin\bin\bash --norc bash-2.05b$
This command prompt cannot find any commands ('ls' is 'not found').
Please re-read the message below. It says that "you'll need to explicitly prepend "/bin:/usr/bin:/usr/X11R6/bin" to your PATH before you'll be able to run any commands".
I notice also that there are already directories in Christopher's path
called 'bin', 'x11', and 'mksnt'. [ Light bulbs should be appearing in the
air above heads about now, upon seeing the dreaded letters 'm', 'k' and 's'
in that particular order..... ]
This last one in particular makes me wonder if the Rational tools you have
installed maybe include or are based around the Mortice Kern Systems Unix
toolset. It's a well-known problem that if you try and run cygwin while
having MKS tools in the $PATH they can sometimes clash. I'd want to start a
dos command shell, then remove all the crud and set a minimal $PATH, and try
again: something like this at the command prompt might work...
---snip--- cd C:\cygwin PATH C:\WinNT\system32;C:\WinNT;C:\WinNT\system32\Wbem bash --login -i ---snip---
Hmm... I suspect that it takes this long to determine the hostname of your machine.
Did you notice that it's the same as his $LOGONSERVER? It shouldn't take
that long to look up a hostname when you're logged on directly at the
keyboard of the domain controller.
But of all the environment variables, I think this is the one that's doing
the most damage:
---snip from cygcheck.out--- SHELL = `C:\PROGRA~1\RATIONAL\RATION~1\NUTCROOT\mksnt\sh.exe' ---snip---
Ouch. So everytime Cygwin bash tries to fork a subprocess, it launches it
using MKS sh. No wonder it loses!
---snip from cygcheck.out--- TERM = `nutc' ---snip---
Wouldn't have thought cygwin would make much sense of that either.
cheers, DaveK
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". . . / This Cabinet is formd of Gold / And Pearl & Crystal shining bright
And within it opens into a World / . . .
Another England there I saw / Another London with its Tower
Another Thames & other Hills / And another pleasant Surrey Bower
. . ."
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*Contact Info:*
Christopher M. Balz
Senior Software Engineer
/TreeLogic Software Engineering <http://treelogic-swe.com>/
160 Lincoln Avenue
Palo Alto, CA 94301-2437 U.S.A.
650.327.0367
[EMAIL PROTECTED] <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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". . . / This Cabinet is formd of Gold / And Pearl & Crystal shining bright
And within it opens into a World / . . .
Another England there I saw / Another London with its Tower
Another Thames & other Hills / And another pleasant Surrey Bower
. . ."
- from /The Crystal Cabinet <http://www.bartleby.com/236/59.html>/, a poem by *William Blake <http://www.art4net.com/EXPObl.html>* (18th-century English poet) where Blake rues England's rule.
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