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 X-Authenticated: #527675 Message-ID: <4300A36B.10405@gmx.de> Date: Mon, 15 Aug 2005 16:15:07 +0200 From: Reinhard Nissl User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 1.0.2 (X11/20050317) 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> <43009ED5.50409@mscha.org> In-Reply-To: <43009ED5.50409@mscha.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Y-GMX-Trusted: 0 X-IsSubscribed: yes Hi, Michael Schaap wrote: > 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. But isn't renaming a running executable only a feature of recent Windows OSs? I think it didn't work with Windows NT and Windows 2000. Bye. -- Dipl.-Inform. (FH) Reinhard Nissl mailto:rnissl@gmx.de -- 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/