Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin@cygwin.com Message-ID: <001d01c4ce87$34b301f0$5709a443@c40624a> From: "Raye Raskin" To: "Brown, Charles" , References: Subject: Re: cygwin using wrong sh.exe Date: Fri, 19 Nov 2004 14:29:16 -0800 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; format=flowed; charset="iso-8859-1"; reply-type=original Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-IsSubscribed: yes ----- Original Message ----- From: "Brown, Charles" To: Sent: Friday, November 19, 2004 2:20 PM Subject: cygwin using wrong sh.exe > After installing Cygwin/X, I can launch a cygwin bash shell, and I can > launch the xwin server using the startxwin.bat file - which also launches > one xterm. However, I can't run any of the X tools from the windows Start > menu, or from a bash prompt. I get an error saying "xterm: > c:\progra~1\rational\ration~1\NUTCROOT\mksnt\sh.exe no such file". > > I asked a buddy for help, and we tried changing the PATH variable so > cygwin/bin is first, and edited some of the cygwin .BAT files, to try to fix > the PATH, but with no success. Somehow, cygwin keeps picking that SHELL. > > I've google'd some terms, and tried the mail list archive without success as > well. > > I've appended the output of cygcheck, which is interesting because it shows > that cygwin does find sh.exe in cygwin/bin. > > What do I have to tweak to fix this? > > Thanks. > > --CB Try setting your $SHELL variable to something other than sh.exe, i.e., bash.exe. -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/