cygwin using wrong sh.exe

[Larry Hall]

At 05:20 PM 11/19/2004, you wrote:
>After installing Cygwin/X, I can launch a cygwin bash shell, and I can
>launch the xwin server using the startxwin.bat file - which also launches
>one xterm.  However, I can't run any of the X tools from the windows Start
>menu, or from a bash prompt.  I get an error saying "xterm:
>c:\progra~1\rational\ration~1\NUTCROOT\mksnt\sh.exe no such file".  
>
>I asked a buddy for help, and we tried changing the PATH variable so
>cygwin/bin is first, and edited some of the cygwin .BAT files, to try to fix
>the PATH, but with no success.  Somehow, cygwin keeps picking that SHELL.
>
>I've google'd some terms, and tried the mail list archive without success as
>well.
>
>I've appended the output of cygcheck, which is interesting because it shows
>that cygwin does find sh.exe in cygwin/bin.
>
>What do I have to tweak to fix this?


Your environment.  From your cygcheck file:

SHELL = `C:\PROGRA~1\RATIONAL\RATION~1\NUTCROOT\mksnt\sh.exe'

You need to find where this is being set to MKS's sh.exe and remove it.
If you cannot or will not do that, you can unset it in startxwin.bat as
an alternative.



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