Greetings, Sven Köhler! >> alias vpnup='exec sudo openvpn --config $HOME/config/client.vpn --writepid >> /tmp/openvpn.pid &' >> >> that's where his problem began, IMO.
> I don't know, why you pointed that out. It's of no use to feed a path > like $HOME/something to a pure win32 binary. You DON'T "feed a path like $HOME/something" ! The shell that run the script will expand variable before passing it to the program. > (Certainly, this hint is kind of important for the ubuntu version of the > script, but not for the cygwin issue, which is solely because he's > mixing cygwin and win32 and expects it work without any complication) Not true. -- WBR, Andrey Repin (anrdae...@freemail.ru) 08.08.2011, <12:13> Sorry for my terrible english... -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple