On Wed, Dec 30, 2009 at 3:47 PM, Neil.Mowbray wrote: http://www.cygwin.com/acronyms/#TOFU Please don't do that.
> Sorry I missing the last question. To answer it: yes perl really is visible > as /opt/perl/bin/perl which bash fails to execute it as the third line > below shows. In this shell bash execute cygwin perl on line 5. > > ls: cannot access /opt/site/bin/perl: No such file or directory > ls: cannot access /opt/ms-vs-10.0/VC/bin/perl: No such file or directory > -rwx------+ 1 SYSTEM SYSTEM 45137 2009-08-25 05:49 /opt/perl/bin/perl > ls: cannot access /usr/local/bin/perl: No such file or directory > -rwxr-xr-x 2 neilmowbray Administrators 34883 2009-12-20 00:20 /bin/perl > -rwxr-xr-x 2 neilmowbray Administrators 34883 2009-12-20 00:20 /usr/bin/perl > > > -----Original Message----- > From: Csaba Raduly > Sent: 30 December 2009 08:52 > Also, try running > > for i in $(echo $PATH | sed -r -e "s/:/ /g"); do ls -l $i/perl; done -rwx------+ 1 SYSTEM SYSTEM 45137 2009-08-25 05:49 /opt/perl/bin/perl I think the problem is that only SYSTEM can run /opt/perl/bin/perl You may need to chmod a+x /opt/perl/bin/perl or chown neilmowbray /opt/perl/bin/perl Hope this helps, Csaba -- Life is complex, with real and imaginary parts -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple