On 2003年7月18日, Julian Gardner wrote: > Tried a couple of things on the two machines (thanks to Andrew Markebo) >> ls -l /bin/sh >> ----------+ 1 ???????? Domain U 69632 Jul 31 2002 /bin/sh (non working) >> -rwxrwxrwx 1 Administ Users 69632 Jul 31 2002 /bin/sh (working) Certainly. A binary without execute permissions will not be able to be executed. So chmod -R a+rx /bin should help. But the '????????' username part of ls doesn't look to healthy... Elfyn -- Elfyn McBratney, EMCB | http://www.nongnu.org/wwwauth/ http://www.emcb.co.uk | http://www.emcb.co.uk/webauth/ elfyn@emcb.co.uk | wwwauth-users AT nongnu DOT org -- 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/