* Hughes, Bill (2003-10-17 15:07 +0200) > Sent: 17 October 2003 12:59 From: Thorsten Kampe >> * Hughes, Bill (2003-10-17 13:31 +0200) >>> Apologies if this is as dumb as it seems to me, but is 'ping' available > in >>> Cygwin from the prompt? >> >>> I have almost everything installed, and short of using the perl or ruby >>> modules I don't seem to have any ping available in Cygwin. >>> e.g. >>> $ ping cygwin.com >>> bash: ping: command not found >> >> Same as under Windows, NetWare, Linux or any other decent Operating >> System: either specify the whole path to "your" ping or take care that >> "your" ping is in the "PATH" environment variable. Easy, isn't it? >> >> FYI: The default /etc/profile and /etc/zprofile take care that the >> default path for ping.exe is in bash/zsh $PATH if the default path is >> in your Windows PATH variable (and that is also the default under >> Windows).
> That's how I thought it worked, and it was in my path - or so I thought. > Somehow my path was wrong in Cygwin - it contained > "/cygdrive/c/WINNT/System32" which looked ok (too much windows) - but it > should have been SYSTEM32, and I should be using PING.EXE too. This comes > from using "check_case:strict" I suspect. Case sensitivity doesn't make much sense. Even check_case:adjust has problems with 'updatedb'. > Is this expected behaviour - I mean did my changing $CYGWIN to include > "check_case:strict" break the default setup? Yes. > I shall now fix my path and create symlinks so 'ping' works. There's no sense in creating symlinks if you fix the PATH. Thorsten -- Content-Type: text/explicit; charset=ISO-8859-666 (Parental Advisory) Content-Transfer-Warning: message contains innuendos not suited for children under the age of 18 -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/
