On 16 April 2007 11:34, Corinna Vinschen wrote: > On Apr 13 16:23, Keith Thompson wrote: >> I just upgraded to tcsh 6.15.00-1. When I start a login shell, >> I get the following error messages: >> >> cat: Command not found. >> cut: Command not found. >> cat: Command not found. >> cut: Command not found. >> sed: Command not found. >> >> (The command I use to do this is >> "C:\cygwin\bin\rxvt.exe -fn 9x15 -fb 9x15bold -e /bin/tcsh -l" >> executed from a Windows shortcut in my Start menu.) >> >> I've tracked this down to the script "/etc/profile.d/complete.tcsh", >> which is invoked from "/etc/csh.cshrc". The complete.tcsh script >> assumes that $PATH / $path has been set, when in fact it has not.
It has the right to assume that. It's completely invalid to launch a shell without /bin in your $PATH. > Hang on, I'm wondering how this is supposed to be a bug. When you start > a local Cygwin shell, the cygwin.bat script sets $PATH for you, so that > it contains /bin. You could easily start rxvt the same way. I'm not > exactly happy to create a special Cygwin complete.tcsh script, which > diverges that much from the upstream version, just because the shell is > called with a wrongly set $PATH. Besides, if you startup tcsh on a linux box with an empty $PATH, you'll get the exact same problems, so Cygwin is DTRT-ing here! Here's an example: Last login: Sun Apr 15 19:50:34 2007 from 192.168.8.46 [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~]$ tcsh [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~]$ ps PID TTY TIME CMD 7801 pts/31 00:00:00 bash 7829 pts/31 00:00:00 tcsh 7847 pts/31 00:00:00 ps [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~]$ exit exit [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~]$ export PATH= [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~]$ /bin/tcsh id: Command not found. id: Command not found. id: Command not found. [: Command not found. test: Permission denied. test: Permission denied. test: Permission denied. test: Permission denied. test: Permission denied. test: Permission denied. id: Command not found. grep: Command not found. sed: Command not found. sed: Command not found. [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~]$ The error is in launching the shell with incorrect environment variable settings. cheers, DaveK -- Can't think of a witty .sigline today.... -- 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/