From: adf AT mentor-systems DOT com (Austin David France) Subject: B20 & bash 2.02.1(2) broken 5 Nov 1998 06:08:39 -0800 Message-ID: <000001be0724$cbdc1d90$010120c0.cygnus.gnu-win32@menpc1> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: "Gnu-Win32 Mailing List (E-mail)" Cc: "Jonathan Storey" CYGWIN_NT-4.0 MENPC1 20.0 (0.1/1/1) 1998-10-29 15:33:43 i486 unknown BASH 2.02.1(2)-release NTW40 Y2KSP4 I installed B20, and discovered a problem with the version of bash shipped with b20. I can log in using cygnus.bat OK, however logins via inetd don't work. Further investigation reveals a very strange problem. Bash 2.02.1(2) won't execute a script whose name is less than 6 characters long. A colleagues is experiencing exactly the same problem, except that bash won't execute a script whose name is less than 4 characters long. An interesting co-incidence is that I have 6 dos drive letters, my colleague has only 4. I am sure this is just a weird co-incidence. I have replaced bash 2.02.1(2) with bash 2.02.1(1) and this corrects the problem for both short script names and inetd (which was presumably a related problem) Austin David France Mentor Systems plc mailto:adf AT mentor-systems DOT com ------------------------------------------------------------------------ The views and opinions expressed in this e-mail message are the sender's and do not necessarily represent the views of Mentor Systems plc. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ - For help on using this list (especially unsubscribing), send a message to "gnu-win32-request AT cygnus DOT com" with one line of text: "help".