Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@sourceware.cygnus.com; run by ezmlm List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@sources.redhat.com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin@sources.redhat.com X-Apparently-From: Message-ID: <3A743FDA.83EDE39F@yahoo.com> Date: Sun, 28 Jan 2001 10:50:50 -0500 From: Earnie Boyd Reply-To: Earnie Boyd X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.76 [en] (WinNT; U) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Chuck.Irvine@mail.sprint.com CC: cygwin@cygwin.com, ntemacs-users@cs.washington.edu Subject: Re: awk permissions related problem - manual-entry --> awk: permission denied References: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Chuck.Irvine@mail.sprint.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. _________________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Get your free @yahoo.com address at http://mail.yahoo.com -- Want to unsubscribe from this list? Check out: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple