1.7.7: PATH in Bash shells

Mon Feb 7 17:19:00 GMT 2011

On Mon, Feb 7, 2011 at 4:55 PM, Gerry Reno wrote:
> On 02/07/2011 10:20 AM, Gerry Reno wrote:
>> On 02/07/2011 01:39 AM, Dirk Sondermann wrote:
>>> On 02/06/11 21:43, Gerry Reno wrote:
>>>>>>>     bash-4.1$ cat /Cygwin.bat
>>>>     @echo off
>>>>>>>>     C:
>>>>     chdir C:\cygwin\bin
>>>>>>>>     REM bash --verbose --login -i
>>>>     bash -i
>>>>>>> Your Cygwin.bat doesn't start bash as a login shell.
>>>>>> -Dirk
>>>>>>>>>> Ok, I tried uncommenting the REM'd line and now I cannot start a shell
>> at all.
>>>> When I click the Cygwin icon a window pops up and in it a whole bunch of
>> lines go scrolling by and at the end it says "Press any key to
>> continue..." and when I press a key the window closes.
>>>>>> Regards,
>> Gerry
>>>>>> When I let it run as a login shell it appears to first be running
> /etc/profile and then dies at around line 153 or so and exits the shell
> which is why I get the 'pause' prompt to press any key.
>> The only error I noticed so far is this:
>>    bash: /etc/profile.d/lang.sh: Bad address
>    bash: /etc/profile.d/lapack0.sh: Bad address
>>> Which doesn't make a lot of sense:
>>    bash-4.1$ ls -l /etc/profile.d/
>    total 8
>    -rw-r--r-- 1 Administrator None 143 Jun 25  2010 lang.csh
>    -rw-r--r-- 1 Administrator None 130 Jun 25  2010 lang.sh
>    -rw-r--r-- 1 Administrator root 258 Aug 24 11:44 lapack0.csh
>    -rw-r--r-- 1 Administrator root 470 Aug 24 11:44 lapack0.sh
>    -rw-r--r-- 1 Administrator root 109 Dec  3 05:17 openssl.csh
>    -rw-r--r-- 1 Administrator root  41 Dec  3 05:17 openssl.sh
>    -rwxr-xr-x 1 Administrator root  74 Mar 16  2010 xinit.csh
>    -rwxr-xr-x 1 Administrator root  44 Mar 16  2010 xinit.sh
>> Except maybe that execute permissions at not on those scripts.  But are
> they supposed to have execute permissions?  Could someone check their
> 1.7.7 installation and let me know  what permissions are on the files in
> /etc/profile.d/?
>>>> Regards,
> Gerry
>
those scripts are called inside /etc/profile and the execute
permission is not needed
---------------------------------------------------------------------------
# Run all of the profile.d scripts
# Note that these are supplied by separate packages
# Ascending alphanumerical order enforced
if [ -d "/etc/profile.d" ]; then
 while read f; do
 if [ -f "${f}" ]; then
 . "${f}"
 fi
 done <<- EOF
 `/bin/find -L /etc/profile.d -type f -iname '*.sh' -or -iname
'*.zsh' | LC_ALL=C sort`
 EOF
fi
---------------------------------------------------------------------------
. FILENAME [ARGUMENTS]
 Read and execute commands from the FILENAME argument in the
 current shell context.
Marco
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