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 From: Chuck.Irvine@mail.sprint.com X-OpenMail-Hops: 1 Date: Sun, 28 Jan 2001 12:27:14 -0600 Message-Id: Subject: RE: awk permissions related problem - manual-entry --> awk: permission denied MIME-Version: 1.0 TO: cygwin@cygwin.com CC: ntemacs-users@cs.washington.edu Content-Type: multipart/mixed; boundary="openmail-part-1e321b8c-00000001" --openmail-part-1e321b8c-00000001 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Disposition: inline ;Creation-Date="Sun, 28 Jan 2001 12:27:14 -0600" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit 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: ---------------------------------- #!/bin/sh gawk $* ----------------------------------- This errored out with the *Man * buffer showing: -------------------------------------- /usr/bin/awk: gawk.exe: permission denied process exited abnormally with code 126 ------------------------------------------- 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] ------------------------------------------------------------ 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: --------------------------------------------- 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] ----------------------------------------------------- and the contents of the *Man * buffer were: --------------------------------------------------- awk: permission denied process exited abnormally with code 126 -------------------------------------------------------- BTW, man from a bash shell works without problem Thanks for you help. Chuck > -----Original Message----- > From: earnie.boyd [mailto:earnie_boyd@yahoo.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.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 > > --openmail-part-1e321b8c-00000001 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii -- Want to unsubscribe from this list? Check out: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple --openmail-part-1e321b8c-00000001--