Mail Archives: cygwin/2005/07/18/01:58:08
On Sun, 17 Jul 2005, Jason Tishler wrote:
> Ross,
>
> On Sun, Jul 17, 2005 at 02:48:39PM -0500, Ross Boulet wrote:
> > My apologies if this is covered somewhere (FAQ, user guide, etc.)
> > Rebaseall now requires being run under ash, but when I run ash from
> > "Start/Run" or from a cmd.exe prompt, it does not execute /etc/profile
> > and therefore does not have a path to rebaseall (or any other cygwin
> > directory for that matter).
> >
> > Granted, I could go in to windoze and add the cygwin directories to my
> > system path, or manually source /etc/profile at the ash prompt. But
> > is there a flag to tell ash to act as a login shell and execute
> > /etc/profile?
>
> Just use the following (from ash):
>
> $ PATH=/bin rebaseall
>
> Jason
Umm, why should rebaseall require a PATH setting at all? Wouldn't it be
easier to specify full paths for every command instead of telling users to
set their PATH?
Igor
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