1.7.7: PATH in Bash shells

[marco atzeri]

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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