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From: "Dave Korn" <dave DOT korn AT artimi DOT com>
To: <cygwin AT cygwin DOT com>
Subject: RE: Missing /bin/sh link
Date: Fri, 28 Oct 2005 10:42:06 +0100
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David Picton wrote:
> I'd like to know whether other people have seen this problem.  I did a
> new installation on a C disk and found that files were missing.  The
> cause was a missing link - no /bin/sh. I did 'ln -s ash.exe sh.exe' and
> reinstalled the
> packages, and all was well.


  sh is meant to be bash these days.  Check in /etc/postinstall and see if it
has 00bash.sh or 00bash.sh.done, and in either case, remove the link and
(re-)run the script.  (Make sure no other cygwin processes or services are
running except for the one bash shell you're using to do this).


    cheers,
      DaveK
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Can't think of a witty .sigline today....


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