Problems with man

[Larry Hall]

Kaufman, Duane (MED, LUNAR) wrote:

> Hi,
> 
> Thanks for taking the time to look into this.
> 
>>On Thu, Jul 31, 2003 at 03:44:28PM -0500, Kaufman, Duane 
>>(MED, LUNAR) wrote:
>>
>>>I did a search of the system, no other sh-s to be found.
>>
>>How about other versions of bash? 
>>
> 
> Searched, no others to be found.
>  
> 
>>>>Have you tried:
>>>>
>>>>c:\>
>>>>c:\>d:\cygwin\bin\sh
>>>>$ /bin/cat /etc/passwd
>>>>
>>>
>>>I have now:
>>>C:\>d:\cygwin\bin\sh
>>>$ /bin/cat /etc/passwd
>>>/bin/cat: not found
>>>$
>>>
>>>Looks to be the same as within cygwin.
>>
>>Try the above with d:\cygwin\bin\bash .
>>
> 
> OK:
> C:\>d:\cygwin\bin\bash
> bash-2.05b$ /bin/cat /etc/passwd
> SYSTEM:*:18:544:,S-1-5-18::
> Administrators:*:544:544:,S-1-5-32-544::
> .
> .
> .
> duane:unused_by_nt/2000/xp:11054:10513:duane,U-LUNARCORP\duane,S-1-5-21-
> 25853599
> -59532045-941767090-1054:/cygdrive/c/C:/DOCUME~1/duane:/bin/bash
                            ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^

One thing that can only help is fixing your home directory to point to
something reasonable.


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