At 10:41 AM 12/28/2001, ROHIT X SINGH wrote: >Hi, > >I have installed cygwin(with expect package) on a number of Windows 2000 >systems, and on all the systems EXCEPT ONE, I am able to spawn "cmd.exe" >using the following command: > >C:\>expect >expect1.1> spawn "C:\\winnt\\system32\\cmd.exe" /c echo PLEASEECHO >spawn C:\winnt\system32\cmd.exe /c echo PLEASEECHO >2852 >expect1.2> >(It works as expected above) > >However, on the system which is unable to spawn it, I get the following : > >C:\>expect >expect1.1> spawn "C:\\winnt\\system32\\cmd.exe" /c echo PLEASEECHO >spawn C:\winnt\system32\cmd.exe /c echo PLEASEECHO >couldn't execute "C:\winnt\system32\cmd.exe": no such file or directory > while executing >"spawn "C:\\winnt\\system32\\cmd.exe" /c echo PLEASEECHO" >expect1.2> >(I get an error as shown above) > >I have checked that cmd.exe does indeed exist at C:\winnt\system32\cmd.exe. >I am using expect version 5.26 in all places. >I am facing this problem on the latest installtion that I did off a nasa >mirror yesterday. I tried reinstalling another mirror but faced the same >problem. > >Other information: I had initially installed cygwin on D: drive, but later >deleted it from D: drive, and reinstalled on C: drive. Could this be a >cause of this error ? My cygwin PATH points to C:\cygwin\bin > >'which sh' points to '/usr/bin/sh' > > I have checked the existence of /bin/sh on all systems. > >PLEASE HELP! :-)
Perhaps the output of 'cygcheck -s -r -v' would be of some help (and maybe not! ;-) ) Larry Hall [EMAIL PROTECTED] RFK Partners, Inc. http://www.rfk.com 838 Washington Street (508) 893-9779 - RFK Office Holliston, MA 01746 (508) 893-9889 - FAX -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Bug reporting: http://cygwin.com/bugs.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/
