Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help AT cygwin DOT com; run by ezmlm List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner AT cygwin DOT com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Message-Id: <5.1.1.5.2.20030310124949.01d43ec0@mail.earthlink.net> X-Sender: jeremyhetzler AT mail DOT earthlink DOT net Date: Mon, 10 Mar 2003 12:50:46 -0800 To: From: Jeremy Hetzler Subject: Re: >/dev/stderr broken in /bin/sh?, makewhatis unhappy, & apropos confused, or just me? In-Reply-To: <000001c2e6b3$cb1aa250$1403a8c0@sc.tlinx.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"; format=flowed At 07:18 PM 3/9/2003 -0800, linda w \(cyg\) wrote: >I normally use bash and this works in bash: > >echo "hello stderr" >/dev/stderr >echo "hello stdout" >/dev/stdout > >But in /bin/sh: > >$ echo hello stderr >/dev/stderr >cannot create /dev/stderr: directory nonexistent >$ echo hello stdout >/dev/stdout >cannot create /dev/stdout: directory nonexistent >$ > >--- > I'm guessing this isn't supposed to work this way? > > "makewhatis -v" doesn't like seem to like it: >law> makewhatis -v >/usr/sbin/makewhatis: cannot create /dev/stderr: directory nonexistent > > I invoked the -v when a simple "makewhatis" yielded >"cd: can't cd to /cygdrive/c/Documents" http://sources.redhat.com/ml/cygwin/2003-02/msg00097.html Jeremy Hetzler -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Bug reporting: http://cygwin.com/bugs.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/