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From: "Michael A Chase" <mchase AT ix DOT netcom DOT com>
To: "Joel Bushart" <jdbushart AT hotmail DOT com>, "Cygwin" <cygwin AT cygwin DOT com>
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Subject: Re: install bash-login problem
Date: Fri, 8 Mar 2002 09:25:28 -0800
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----- Original Message -----
From: "Joel Bushart" <jdbushart AT hotmail DOT com>
To: "Cygwin" <cygwin AT cygwin DOT com>
Sent: Friday, March 08, 2002 09:05
Subject: Re: install bash-login problem


> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Michael A Chase" <mchase AT ix DOT netcom DOT com>
> To: "Joel Bushart" <jdbushart AT hotmail DOT com>; "Cygwin" <cygwin AT cygwin DOT com>
> Sent: Friday, March 08, 2002 11:33 AM
> Subject: Re: install bash-login problem
>
> > The correct way to get a bash prompt is the same as shown in
> > c:\cygwin\cygwin.bat, start bash: bash --login -i
> >
> > You are not logging into UNIX, you are starting an alternate shell in
> > Windows.
>
> My apologies I forgot to mention that that login error also occurs from
the
> cygwin.bat file when I double click it. :(
> anywho, I thought that some greater minds than I may make some sense out
of
> it as bash seems to work fine but login fails. I'm not sure if cygwin or
> login is in error.

There _isn't_ and _shouldn't_ be a call to the binary program 'login.exe' in
the default cygwin.bat.  If you have one there now, it is an error; replace
it with the original text.  I've placed a list of the original contents of
cygwin.bat below my sig so you can easily correct it.

If _bash_ fails to start for some reason in cygwin.bat, that is another
issue.  The chdir to the Cygwin /bin directory is necessary if you don't
already have it in PATH.
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cygwin.bat: (for / = c:\cygwin\)
@echo off

c:
chdir c:\cygwin\bin

bash --login -i



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