Mail Archives: cygwin/2001/01/28/13:27:45
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Hi Earnie,
Deleting and re-creating the link resulted in the same problem.
The other approach, if I understood correctly, resulted in a different
problem. I deleted the awk link and created a script named awk with the
contents:
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#!/bin/sh
gawk $*
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This errored out with the *Man <cmdName>* buffer showing:
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/usr/bin/awk: gawk.exe: permission denied
process exited abnormally with code 126
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and the *Messages* buffer showing:
------------------------------------------------------------
...
Invoking man chmod in the background
Please wait: making up the chmod man page...
chmod man page made up
error in process sentinel: *Man chmod*: process exited abnormally with
code 126 [2 times]
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Finally, I tried one more workaround. I deleted the awk script and just
copied gawk.exe to awk.exe. Interestingly, I got more or less the same
problem. The contents of the *Messages* buffer were:
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Invoking man chmod in the background
Please wait: making up the chmod man page...
chmod man page made up
error in process sentinel: *Man chmod*: process exited abnormally with
code 126 [2 times]
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and the contents of the *Man <cmdName>* buffer were:
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awk: permission denied
process exited abnormally with code 126
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BTW, man from a bash shell works without problem
Thanks for you help.
Chuck
> -----Original Message-----
> From: earnie.boyd [mailto:earnie_boyd AT yahoo DOT com]
> Sent: Sunday, January 28, 2001 9:51 AM
> To: Chuck.Irvine
> Cc: cygwin; ntemacs-users
> Subject: Re: awk permissions related problem - manual-entry --> awk:
> permission denied
>
>
> Chuck DOT Irvine AT mail DOT sprint DOT com wrote:
> >
> > I recently (a week or two ago) downloaded a newer verion of
> cygwin and
> > now I'm unable to use the ntemacs command "manual-entry" (used to
> > display man pages). When I invoke this command, emacs
> complains "awk:
> > permission denied; process exited abnormally with code
> 126". I checked
> > permissions on /bin/awk, which is a symbolic link to /bin/gawk, and
> > they are lrw-r--r--. Permissions on gawk are -rwxr-xr-x. I tried
> > setting CYGWIN to ntsec and adding execute permission to
> awk, but this
> > didn't solve my problem.
> >
> > Any help is greatly appreciated.
> >
>
> What happens if you
> cd /bin
> rm awk
> ln -s gawk.exe awk.exe
> ?
>
> Why not just change the script to #!/bin/gawk ?
>
> Earnie.
>
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