if i get ls werking in cygwin i want to get it to run ksh anybody have a good setup site explanations
i will google but sometimes that is a rack fracker.
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my friend sent me a link here:
http://www.research.att.co
it untarred okay.. now i have to like make make install or something right? i guess
that's supposed to be in the README or something, right? i'm not really comfortable
installing on unix yet.. i will get to this after i finish the assignment (which includes
getting cygwin but getting ksh was my own independent preference)
and again from another thread - bash is run from cygwin.bat, fix it by replacing bash with ash,ast or pdksh, after they get installed...
Linux uses bash2, freebsd uses tcsh, openbsd uses pdksh... most commercial unices use (older) ksh. All have older bourne shell (grandfather of ksh) for /bin/sh. It all depends where you will be using your scripts after.
ActiveState (www. ... .com) perl is better than one which comes with cygwin, I for my self consider FreeBSD 5.2 for laptop.
i need to run cygwin because of the platform we have to work on. this is for a class, but ksh is not required. i prefer
ksh. now i finally installed cygwin correctly but right now i have to write a script to fix the case i don't know what
else to do the make command is not working because it doesn't read any directories.
oh.. now.. okay.. so if i update the file cygwin.bat that will be my startup shell? okay i will try that and update.
i have a ksh now that i installed cygwin correctly.
i went to bin, and there is only ksh.exe i ran it from windows explorer it
fired up but my .profile didn't get activated. i tried changing
cygwin.bat like this:
it was:
@echo off
C:
chidir C:\cygwin\bin
bash --login -i
i left the first three lines but then i
#bash --login -i
ksh.exe --login -i
that's probably not right.. i don't know if --login is right for ksh
my friend told me i have to fire up a sshd to use ssh to run my cygwin shell but he didn't have time to deal
with it. that way i can use my ssh secure shell to run my cygwin shell because i just realized i am having
that (@*#ing vi buffering problem i just can't tolerate it.
we'll see what's faster.. you, tom, or a google search {:}
btw thanks a lot for the help and sorry i am such an idiot {:)
everything werks now but i have another question.. am i going to have to
resetup everything every time i reboot.. i.e...
Now, you'll want to configure sshd.
Run "ssh-host-config -y" to set it up. This step will create necessary configuration files, a priviledge separation user and necessary directories. When prompted with "CYGWIN=" type "tty ntsec".
Now you are ready to start the service: "cygrunsrv -S sshd"
Test the service by running "ssh localhost"
and the the other thing that setup told me to do?
if so, how do i get this stuf in the startup? if i put it in .profile i don't think
that would werk becuase i have to have sshd before i log in and run .profile
so where can i put it.. oh cygwin.bat? wait it won't be in the same process,
then will it?
okay. i am stumped.
the pwd is the command line (i never type "pwd" and if somebody does it is sort of confusing because
it looks just like the prompt but the prompt just has another ">"
and i want to use the vi editor at the command line.. i hit esc, then k and it
shows me my last command i keep hitting k and then it shows the last command and i can
do "l' or "w" and nagivate and re-edit the command e.g. turning a cp into a vi on the same
file etc.
set -o vi doesn't seem to stick on bash.
how would i make an if statement in my .profile so that it can react to the fact that it might
be running either bash or ksh? right now, the .profile is on like a samba account or something
if i remote login (e.g. for my email) via a terminal/ssh to the unicorn server i have ksh but
when i try to run cygwin on a local samba netwerked thing it must run bash and it pulls
the same .profile. i need to put if statements there somewhere because the bash shell gets ****ed up.l
hmm.. maybe i should send you the file. do you have an email address? it's a really big file
i got it from a instructor i don't know what it all does i guess i could figure it out but
i don't really know what parts of it makes the bash shell crash.
what the hell are you talking about??
listen. i don't have the money for 5 computers so i can run one on linux and one on bsd and
another on uncle bill suck my dick because i have an application called chessbase that is
very important to me.
i use a server that is an academic server called unicorn for email that is a real unix and i
am sorry to say all this nonsense with the cygwin is required for a course i am in it will
be over soon maybe it is irrelevant but i am sorry ksh is real unix and well.. i don't
know is linux bsd bash real unix? huh? what is yer definition of "real unix" anyway...
if you ask me, having a .profile that is capable of handling the fact that it might be run
by either the ksh or the bash shell to me seems like more than "real unix" it sounds
like a "real professional" idea. hopefully someday over the rainbow i can be viewed
as skilled enuf to actually make a living at this but as of right now i guess these things are unclear.
for right now the only unices i can control are as a mere user on my academic accounts and
the cygwin running on my laptop i got for $30 (all i can afford) and the skewl samba netwerk
machines that have this strange configuration where the unicorn unix home directories for
users is mapped to an h drive for the xp and has cygwin on it that also uses the .profile
that resides on the unicorn/h drive server.
But you had money for 4 Windows. So you can have microsoft services for unix ( www.microsoft.com/unix ) , they install ksh without asking, unlike cygwin, where you need click through to get to pdksh... it was and is and will be matter of your choice.
you fail to realize the sitch here. i _cannot_ change the bash shell on the university xp/samba/cygwin set up.
therefore i have decided the best solution is to engineer my .profile to operate correctly under both ksh and bash.
this week i may need to use those machines because i don't have a floppy drive here and i am required
to create a floppy disk to interface with a hardware project. in any case, it seems a professional type thing to
be able to do and i want to figure it out.
maybe i can do this....
oh sheesh.. is this the best way?
http://unix.about.com/libr
okay.. this should werk:
A shell is interactive if the -i option is used or if both standard
/home/Kayven Riese>
/home/Kayven Riese> ps
PID PPID PGID WINPID TTY UID STIME COMMAND
1144 1816 1144 1228 0 1000 13:52:39 /usr/bin/pdksh
1936 1144 1936 460 0 1000 13:56:25 /usr/bin/ps
/home/Kayven Riese> ps | grep "ksh"
1144 1816 1144 1228 0 1000 13:52:39 /usr/bin/pdksh
1944 1144 1868 1944 0 1000 13:56:45 /usr/bin/pdksh
/home/Kayven Riese> ps | grep "bash"
/home/Kayven Riese> echo $?
1
/home/Kayven Riese> ps | grep "ksh"
1144 1816 1144 1228 0 1000 13:52:39 /usr/bin/pdksh
/home/Kayven Riese> echo $?
0
/home/Kayven Riese>
here is a splat of the beginning of my .profile:
HISTFILE=~/.hist$$
MYSQL=/tmp/local/mysql/bin
HOST=63.195.122.251
PASSWD=cis167p1054
DATABASE=$LOGNAME
alias mysql="$MYSQL -u $LOGNAME -h $HOST -p${PASSWD} $DATABASE"
export PATH
export TERM=vt100
EXINIT='set aw sm smd'; export EXINIT
stty -tabs erase ^H stop ^S intr ^C
stty kill ^K
stty susp ^Z
#tset -I -Q
PS1='$PWD> '
PS2='>'
PS3="Select: "
PS4='(Trace $LINENO): '
EDITOR=$(whence vi)
VISUAL=$(whence vi)
HISTSIZE=128
export PS1 PS2 PS3 PS4 EDITOR VISUAL HISTSIZE
export CFLAG="-s -O"
what is it in there that is messing up my bash shell?
i need to add something like:
what_shell=`ps | grep "bash"`
if [ $? -ne 0 ]
don't mess up my bash shell get out of here.
do i exit?
fi
shoot: why is this at the end:
#export DISPLAY=$(set_display)
exec /bin/ksh
set -o vi
set -o viraw
okay i am noticing:
You've just confirmed my suspicion.
Having the current working directory in the prompt works the same way for bash/ksh, eg:
export PS1='$PWD$ '
my .profile does this but it doesn't werk. it also does set -o vi but it makes the bash shell puke
i think it might be this junk:
##########################
alias -x a=alias -x
alias -x h='fc -l'
alias -x l=ls
alias -x ll='ls -l'
alias -x lll='ls -lt | head -15'
alias -x os='uname -a'
alias -x xt='xterm -fn courR14 &'
alias -x xtb='xterm -bg black -fg green -fn courR14 &'
alias -x sd='ls -l | grep "^d" '
alias -x vw='view'
alias -x bye='clear; exit'
alias -x av='appletviewer'
alias -x cls='clear'
is alias a command in bash? i think that is what i see in the error messages
btw
You are successfully logged in to this server!!!
/home/Kayven Riese> ps
PID PPID PGID WINPID TTY UID STIME COMMAND
1228 904 1228 1884 0 1000 14:01:12 /usr/bin/pdksh
1520 1228 1520 1992 0 1000 14:01:22 /usr/bin/vim
460 1704 460 1556 1 1000 14:03:48 /usr/bin/pdksh
680 460 680 976 1 1000 14:03:52 /usr/bin/ps
/home/Kayven Riese>
oh rats.. what'd i do?
what_shell=`ps | grep "bash"`
if ["$?" -ne 0 ]; then
what_shell="bash"
else
what_shell="not_bash"
fi # this is line 28 of .profile i don't get that error
HISTFILE=~/.hist$$
Last login: Mon May 10 14:20:09 2004 from 127.0.0.1
Fanfare!!!
You are successfully logged in to this server!!!
ksh: /home/Kayven Riese/.profile[28]: [1: not found
/home/Kayven Riese>
oh well.. enough for today i need to make my choo choo run to avoid getting a C
kayvey.
How about you watch your language. There's no need for abusive terms.
Unless you have some *very*, *very* specific ksh'isms in your .profile, you should not need to change anything at all for it to work between ksh/bash.
What error messages do you get when your cygwin bash session reads your .profile?
OK, now we have concrete information to work on. Your profile does indeed have some minor ksh/bash differences.
bash doesn't have a 'whence' builtin, so where you have
EDITOR=$(whence vi)
you could have
EDITOR=$(which vi)
although your milage can vary with the which command.
bash doesn't have exported aliases, so where you have
alias -x cls='clear'
do
alias cls='clear'
Do you really need exported aliases anyway?
To test which shell you are using, do
case $0 in
ksh) echo "running ksh" ;;
bash) echo "running bash" ;;
*) echo "unknown shell" ;;
esac
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