Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@cygwin.com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin@cygwin.com Message-ID: <01c301c1baf7$bf5435a0$f400a8c0@mchasecompaq> From: "Michael A Chase" To: "Martin Nilsson \(ERV\)" , References: <5F03ACA2F76DD411B8BC00508BE3B4D70A52254C@esemont203.gbg.edt.ericsson.se> Subject: Re: Problems using tcsh as default shell Date: Thu, 21 Feb 2002 08:47:14 -0800 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 6.00.2600.0000 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2600.0000 ----- Original Message ----- From: "Martin Nilsson (ERV)" To: Sent: Thursday, February 21, 2002 07:02 Subject: Problems using tcsh as default shell > I have a problem with tcsh when using it as the default shell for cygwin. I have replaced the bash command line in cygwin.bat with tcsh -l and now my cygwin.bat have the following content: > > @echo off > C: > cd \cygwin\bin > tcsh -l > > tcsh does not seem to have any problem reading my startup scripts (like .tcshrc asf) but it always complains with the following message: > > /cygdrive/c/j2sdk1.4.0/bin/sed: No children. > > Sometimes "j2sdk1.4.0/bin" is replaced by some other path name. I guess there is some kind of problem with my path variable when tcsh is trying to parse it (using sed??). Does anyone have a solution on how to avoid this error? > > This problem does not arise when invoking tcsh from bash (and using bash as default shell). > > cygwin is installed on a WIN2K machine. It looks like you have something earlier in $path that contains files with the same names as the utilities provided by Cygwin; probably c:\j2sdk1.4.0\bin\sed.exe in this example. /etc/csh.cshrc runs before /etc/csh.login has a chance to fix $path to put Cygwin's bin directories at the front of the path, so your Win2K path is still in effect. Running 'type -a sed' (or similar for other tools) in bash may be enlightening. The output from 'cygcheck -s' may also help you figure out what's happening. -- Mac :}) ** I normally forward private questions to the appropriate mail list. ** Ask Smarter: http://www.tuxedo.org/~esr/faqs/smart-questions.html Give a hobbit a fish and he eats fish for a day. Give a hobbit a ring and he eats fish for an age. -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Bug reporting: http://cygwin.com/bugs.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/