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: <43009ED5.50409@mscha.org> Date: Mon, 15 Aug 2005 15:55:33 +0200 From: Michael Schaap Reply-To: cygwin@cygwin.com User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 1.0+ (Windows/20050712) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: cygwin@cygwin.com Subject: Re: missing sh.exe in coreutils References: <7062534.1124094500717.JavaMail.adm-moff@moffice5.nsc.no> <43005647.59447F23@dessent.net> In-Reply-To: <43005647.59447F23@dessent.net> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-IsSubscribed: yes On 15-Aug-2005 10:45, Brian Dessent wrote: > Sigurd Nes wrote: > > >> Is sh.exe missing from coreutils? >> >> I am not able to use sh after a upgrade - and sh-utils is listed as _obsolete >> > > First, sh is not a part of coreutils nor its predecessor sh-utils. > Until recently, /bin/sh has been ash, in the package 'ash'. Now it is a > copy of /bin/bash, from the package 'bash'. The new bash postinstall > script is supposed to make this change for you when upgrading, but > because the shell itself is used to run the script it does not always > work. You can just manually run /etc/postinstall/00bash.sh.done and it > should fix things. Or re-run setup and set 'bash' to reinstall. > > Apologies if I'm stating something obvious and well-known, but if the problem is that a currently running sh.exe cannot be deleted/overwritten, note that you *can* rename a running executable. So something like rm -f /bin/sh0.exe [[ -f /bin/sh.exe ]] && mv /bin/sh.exe /bin/sh0.exe cp -fpuv /bin/bash.exe /bin/sh.exe might do the job. - Michael -- 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/