X-Recipient: archive-cygwin AT delorie DOT com X-SWARE-Spam-Status: No, hits=-1.7 required=5.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_00,TW_YW X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org X-Yahoo-SMTP: Uu383n6swBCEN1G9up0WSnxbvN8fCPmk Message-ID: <4C655FA8.2000808@cygwin.com> Date: Fri, 13 Aug 2010 11:07:20 -0400 From: "Larry Hall \(Cygwin\)" Reply-To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.8.1.21) Gecko/20090320 Remi/2.0.0.21-1.fc8.remi Lightning/0.9 Thunderbird/2.0.0.21 Mnenhy/0.7.5.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Subject: Re: bash becomes a directory in win 7? LOL References: In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help AT cygwin DOT com; run by ezmlm List-Id: 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 On 8/13/2010 9:32 AM, mike marchywka wrote: > I'm trying to popup new bash windows from a script and getting lots > of wierd problems. First, I seem to have to run the cygwin window as > admin, ok fine I can click on that. After playing around for a while, > I was able to get cmd start bash to run ok but the children seemed to > lose admin startus if I closed the parent. Anyway, at some point they > stopped working > and I checked cygwin/bin and apparently bash was now a directory. If I > copied bash.exe over it things started working again? I moved the old > bash "dir" to bash_wtf and now if is called "bash_wtf.exe" and appears > as a dir. Something up with links? > > > Thanks, pointing out something obvious and stupid is welcome as long > as it fixes the problem, LOL Sounds like a bug in your scripts or a virus. -- Larry Hall http://www.rfk.com RFK Partners, Inc. (508) 893-9779 - RFK Office 216 Dalton Rd. (508) 893-9889 - FAX Holliston, MA 01746 _____________________________________________________________________ A: Yes. > Q: Are you sure? >> A: Because it reverses the logical flow of conversation. >>> Q: Why is top posting annoying in email? -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple