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Date: Thu, 28 Sep 2000 10:22:15 -0700
From: Bob McGowan <rmcgowan AT veritas DOT com>
Organization: VERITAS Software
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To: "Larry Hall (RFK Partners, Inc)" <lhall AT rfk DOT com>
CC: "Guy T. Moore Jr." <gmoore AT openmarket DOT com>, cygwin AT sourceware DOT cygnus DOT com,
        perakis AT po-2 DOT openmarket DOT com, wabraham AT openmarket DOT com
Subject: Re: bash: ./myscript: No such file or directory.  TMP variableis being  
 unset
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Regarding the TMP variable, did you log out after setting it?  I have
found for my environment that I have to log out and back in before the
variable I set is seen correctly in Cygwin.  In my case, I suspect that
it is because I am using inetd as a service, which keeps the dll with my
login variables loaded?

"Larry Hall (RFK Partners, Inc)" wrote:
> 
> At 12:36 PM 9/28/2000, Guy T. Moore Jr. wrote:
> >1.)
> >Seems like I should be able to do the following simple shell scripting:
> >
> >
> >I'm in a Cygwin 1.1.4 window at my C: prompt.
> >
> >I create a file, called myscript,  with the 1 line of:
> >
> >      echo "doggie"
> >
> >
> >I cannot execute this successfully:
> >
> >$ ./myscript
> >bash: ./myscript: No such file or directory.
> >
> >
> >
> >I can execute myscript succesfully if I add at the top of the
> >myscript the line of:
> >
> >     #!/bin/sh
> >
> >
> >and I can also execute myscript succesfully if I, preface the command with /bin/sh:
> >
> >$ /bin/sh myscript
> >
> >
> >I'd rather get it to work the way it does on Solaris 5.7 in a bourne shell or csh
> >without using any work arounds.
> >
> >This problem is preventing other simple things from working correctly.
> 
> Your scripts aren't "portable", although that's your choice!;-)  If you
> are running on NT-based systems with NTFS file systems, you can set "ntsec"
> in your CYGWIN environment variable and then use "chmod +x <file>" (please
> read the documentation on how ntsec works though).  Alternatively, you can
> use "ntea" on NT-based systems on either NTFS or FAT drives, as long as you
> don't mind a large "EA DATA. SF" file in the root of all the FAT drives!;-)
> If you use "ntea", you can use chmod as well.  Otherwise, you need to let
> Cywgin know this is a script by adding the #!/bin/sh line or invoking it
> with the shell.  Those are your current options.
> 
> >2.)
> >I have the environment variable "TMP" defined as both a SYSTEM and USER environment
> >variable, but when I open up a Cygwin window it does not have this set.
> >It has all the other ones set, why did it unset this?
> 
> Never seen this so I can't help you there...
> 
> Larry Hall                              lhall AT rfk DOT com
> RFK Partners, Inc.                      http://www.rfk.com
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