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Re: awk permissions related problem - manual-entry --> awk: permission denied
- To: Chuck dot Irvine at mail dot sprint dot com
- Subject: Re: awk permissions related problem - manual-entry --> awk: permission denied
- From: Earnie Boyd <earnie_boyd at yahoo dot com>
- Date: Sun, 28 Jan 2001 10:50:50 -0500
- CC: cygwin at cygwin dot com, ntemacs-users at cs dot washington dot edu
- References: <H00009db08493dd7.0980645169.kcopmp06@MHS>
- Reply-To: Earnie Boyd <cygwin at cygwin dot com>
Chuck.Irvine@mail.sprint.com wrote:
>
> I recently (a week or two ago) downloaded a newer verion of cygwin and
> now I'm unable to use the ntemacs command "manual-entry" (used to
> display man pages). When I invoke this command, emacs complains "awk:
> permission denied; process exited abnormally with code 126". I checked
> permissions on /bin/awk, which is a symbolic link to /bin/gawk, and
> they are lrw-r--r--. Permissions on gawk are -rwxr-xr-x. I tried
> setting CYGWIN to ntsec and adding execute permission to awk, but this
> didn't solve my problem.
>
> Any help is greatly appreciated.
>
What happens if you
cd /bin
rm awk
ln -s gawk.exe awk.exe
?
Why not just change the script to #!/bin/gawk ?
Earnie.
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