X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org To: cygwin@cygwin.com From: Kiyo Kelvin Lee Subject: Re: problem with subshells or childs? Date: Thu, 06 Jul 2006 17:45:06 +1000 Lines: 49 Message-ID: References: <44ACA975.3070601@hmdc.de> <44ACB2E7.9050203@hotmail.com> <44ACBA79.2060306@hmdc.de> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit User-Agent: Thunderbird 1.5.0.4 (Windows/20060516) In-Reply-To: <44ACBA79.2060306@hmdc.de> X-IsSubscribed: yes Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Unsubscribe: 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 Have you tried something like (with explicit .exe extension): /bin/rsync -Cavz -e "/usr/bin/ssh.exe" /cygdrive/d/ server:/home/ml/backups/ Probably won't help. As both with or without extension work for me. Regards, Kiyo ml wrote: > Hi! > > [...] >> If you call sh like this, sh will try to run the file as shell script. >> And of course ls is not a shell script. >> To run a binary command (or any command actually) with sh, the command >> should be: >> >> sh -c ls > [...] >>> i need some help with this: >>> My plan was to use rsync via ssh from a bash script. But rsync could >>> not run ssh for whatever reason: no such file or directory. >>> >>> For quicker checking, invoking "bash -e ls" or just "sh ls" shows the >>> same problem - see below. > > > sh -c ls works. However, the the original problem was that this little > shell script is not working: > > #!/usr/bin/sh > /bin/rsync -Cavz -e "/usr/bin/ssh" /cygdrive/d/ server:/home/ml/backups/ > > Error is: > rsync: Failed to exec "ssh: No such file or directory (2) > rsync error: error in IPC code (code 14) at > /home/lapo/packaging/tmp/rsync-2.6.6/pipe.c(83) > rsync: connection unexpectedly closed (0 bytes received so far) [sender] > rsync error: error in rsync protocol data stream (code 12) at > /home/lapo/packaging/tmp/rsync-2.6.6/io.c(434) > > rsync cannot find /usr/bin/ssh, but it is there. > I also tried just "ssh", since it is in the path and /bin/ssh. > > Thanks, > ml > -- 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/