Re: Fwd: which command fails

["J S" <vervoom at hotmail dot com>]

> On Thu, 19 Dec 2002, J S wrote:
>
> > Sorry I posted this to the wrong group.
> > >
> > >Hi,
> > >
> > >Since I upgraded cygwin I can't use the which command. It keeps saying:
> > >
> > >$ which /usr/bin/ls
> > >/usr/bin/ls: Command not found.
> > >
> > >
> > >My path appears to be OK:
> > >
> > >$ echo $PATH
> > 
> >/usr/local/bin:/usr/bin:/bin:.:/usr/bin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/X11R6/bin:/usr/local/wmaker/bin:/cygdriv
> > 
> >e/c/WINNT/system32:/cygdrive/c/WINNT:/cygdrive/c/WINNT/System32/Wbem:/cygdrive/c/ora8i/bin:/cygdrive
> > >/c/Program
> > 
> >Files/Oracle/jre/1.1.7/bin:/cygdrive/c/PROGRA~1/E!PC:/cygdrive/c/ACE/rdbms32/bin:/cygdriv
> > >e/c/Program Files/Attachmate/E!E2K/:/cygdrive/c/PROGRA~1/ULTRAE~1
> > >
> > >The which also looks OK, and is the same as the which in the old cygwin 
> I
> > >had:
> > >
> > >$ which
> > >usage: which [-a] command...
> > >
> > >$ ls -l which
> > >-rwx------    1 544      10513        4608 Nov 15  2001 which
> > >
> > >Any ideas what could be going wrong?
> > >
> > >JS.
>
> Yes.  You have ntsec on (it's on by default starting from 1.3.13, IIRC),
> and the files in your /bin have the wrong permissions.  Try
>
> $ chmod -R a+rx /bin
>
> and see if it solves the problem.  You might also want to update your
> passwd and group files - search this list for instructions.
> 	Igor


I found doing chmod -R a+Xr * from the root directory was a better solution 
because it only then added user excecute permissions to those files that 
already had the x flag set.

I now have a problem in that, when I take a snapshot of cygwin with these 
permissions set, the package I build doesn't retain those permissions when I 
install it again.

Ideally what I'd like is for the administrator to install the package, and 
then the user log on and run startx. Unfortunately at the moment that 
currently results in things not working properly eg. the which command, 
failed input method.

So short of getting the administrator to run chmod -R a+Xr * themselves 
first before logging off, is there anything else you can think of which 
might allow me to retain the permissions in my cygwin build?

Many thanks for your help.

Rgds,

JS.

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