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From: sos AT prospect DOT com DOT ru (Sergey Okhapkin)
Subject: RE: xterm: can't exec /bin/sh
20 Jun 1998 07:13:04 -0700 :
Message-ID: <01BD9C57.49F89E80.cygnus.gnu-win32@sos>
To: "gnu-win32 AT cygnus DOT com" <gnu-win32 AT cygnus DOT com>,
"'Matthew Patton'"
<matthew DOT patton AT ra DOT pae DOT osd DOT mil>

Matthew Patton wrote:
> Sorry for the dumb question but with X-Win32 running I typed in xterm and
> it complains as the subject states. I had a symlink from /bin/sh to
> /bin/bash but that wasn't working. I tried copying /bin/bash to /bin/sh and
> /bin/sh.exe and setting mode to 555. Still no luck. What am I doing wrong?

Remove CRs from /etc/passwd :-)

-- 
Sergey Okhapkin, http://www.lexa.ru/sos
Moscow, Russia


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