Am 08.08.2011 10:14, schrieb Andrey Repin: > Greetings, Sven Köhler! > >>> alias vpnup='exec sudo openvpn --config $HOME/config/client.vpn --writepid >>> /tmp/openvpn.pid &' >>> >>> that's where his problem began, IMO. > >> I don't know, why you pointed that out. It's of no use to feed a path >> like $HOME/something to a pure win32 binary. > > You DON'T "feed a path like $HOME/something" ! > The shell that run the script will expand variable before passing it to the > program.
A win32 (non-cygwin) executable doesn't that /cygdrive/c refers to c:\. It also doesn't know that /home/bla is actually the same as c:\cygwin\home\bla. A win32 simply doesn't use cygwin, hence don't know about the translation from cygwin's POSIX paths to win32 ones. It turned out, that the OP was not using a cygwin version of openvpn. So if $HOME is a POSIX (cygwin specific) path, it won't work.
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