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 Date: Mon, 18 Jul 2005 01:57:52 -0400 (EDT) From: Igor Pechtchanski Reply-To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com To: Jason Tishler cc: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Subject: Re: Invoking ash for rebaseall In-Reply-To: <20050717205915.GA2656@tishler.net> Message-ID: References: <003b01c58b08$9c1b4800$6400000a AT RossLap> <20050717205915 DOT GA2656 AT tishler DOT net> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII On Sun, 17 Jul 2005, Jason Tishler wrote: > Ross, > > On Sun, Jul 17, 2005 at 02:48:39PM -0500, Ross Boulet wrote: > > My apologies if this is covered somewhere (FAQ, user guide, etc.) > > Rebaseall now requires being run under ash, but when I run ash from > > "Start/Run" or from a cmd.exe prompt, it does not execute /etc/profile > > and therefore does not have a path to rebaseall (or any other cygwin > > directory for that matter). > > > > Granted, I could go in to windoze and add the cygwin directories to my > > system path, or manually source /etc/profile at the ash prompt. But > > is there a flag to tell ash to act as a login shell and execute > > /etc/profile? > > Just use the following (from ash): > > $ PATH=/bin rebaseall > > Jason Umm, why should rebaseall require a PATH setting at all? Wouldn't it be easier to specify full paths for every command instead of telling users to set their PATH? Igor -- http://cs.nyu.edu/~pechtcha/ |\ _,,,---,,_ pechtcha AT cs DOT nyu DOT edu ZZZzz /,`.-'`' -. ;-;;,_ igor AT watson DOT ibm DOT com |,4- ) )-,_. ,\ ( `'-' Igor Pechtchanski, Ph.D. '---''(_/--' `-'\_) fL a.k.a JaguaR-R-R-r-r-r-.-.-. Meow! If there's any real truth it's that the entire multidimensional infinity of the Universe is almost certainly being run by a bunch of maniacs. /DA -- 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/