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Re: install bash-login problem
----- Original Message -----
From: "Joel Bushart" <jdbushart@hotmail.com>
To: "Cygwin" <cygwin@cygwin.com>
Sent: Friday, March 08, 2002 09:05
Subject: Re: install bash-login problem
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Michael A Chase" <mchase@ix.netcom.com>
> To: "Joel Bushart" <jdbushart@hotmail.com>; "Cygwin" <cygwin@cygwin.com>
> Sent: Friday, March 08, 2002 11:33 AM
> Subject: Re: install bash-login problem
>
> > The correct way to get a bash prompt is the same as shown in
> > c:\cygwin\cygwin.bat, start bash: bash --login -i
> >
> > You are not logging into UNIX, you are starting an alternate shell in
> > Windows.
>
> My apologies I forgot to mention that that login error also occurs from
the
> cygwin.bat file when I double click it. :(
> anywho, I thought that some greater minds than I may make some sense out
of
> it as bash seems to work fine but login fails. I'm not sure if cygwin or
> login is in error.
There _isn't_ and _shouldn't_ be a call to the binary program 'login.exe' in
the default cygwin.bat. If you have one there now, it is an error; replace
it with the original text. I've placed a list of the original contents of
cygwin.bat below my sig so you can easily correct it.
If _bash_ fails to start for some reason in cygwin.bat, that is another
issue. The chdir to the Cygwin /bin directory is necessary if you don't
already have it in PATH.
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cygwin.bat: (for / = c:\cygwin\)
@echo off
c:
chdir c:\cygwin\bin
bash --login -i
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