Installing Cygwin Under W2k

[Elfyn McBratney]

On Fri, 18 Jul 2003, 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

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