Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin@cygwin.com Message-ID: <4159E48C.DC2FE269@dessent.net> Date: Tue, 28 Sep 2004 15:24:12 -0700 From: Brian Dessent Organization: My own little world... MIME-Version: 1.0 To: cygwin@cygwin.com Subject: Re: 1.5.11-1: Problem running executables in bash References: <9334c26a04092814404922a0c8@mail.gmail.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-IsSubscribed: yes Reply-To: cygwin@cygwin.com Nathan Green wrote: > SET HOME="c:\cygwin" > SET PATH="c:\cygwin\bin" > > C: > chdir C:\cygwin\bin > > bash --login -i Why did you edit this file? Your PATH almost certainly requires more than just \cygwin\bin in it. You will have great difficulty running many things without your windows system directory in the path. You shouldn't even need to mess with the PATH variable unless you want your cygwin directory in the path outside of cygwin.bat. That is, it will be added to your path when you start bash so there's no need to set it in cygwin.bat. If you insist on editing it then at least prepend cygwin to the beginning of the path, don't replace the path with just \cygwin\bin. Brian -- 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/