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On Tuesday 25 Sep 01, Arthur Schwarz writes: > After uninstall of B20.1 and installation of v1.3.3 my 'old' home directory > (/cygdrive/c/home2/<name>) became my home rather than my 'new' one > (/home/<name>). I've looked through the FAQ and the User's Guide, and looked > through the source (bash-2.05-7/shell.c). I've changed my /etc/passwd to > ensure that it is accessed by getpwuid in shell.c, and modified all of the > 'cygnus solutions' entries in the Win98 registry to reference /home/<name> > as needed. In /etc/profile $HOME is used and I haven't found where $HOME is > exported. The easy workaround is to put a .bashrc file changing $HOME in the > 'old' home and just forget it. But I'd like to find out why this is > happening and fix it (if it needs fixing) or do something to cause the 'new' > home to be referenced at shell startup. Any idea what is going on? If this is Win98, did you look at autoexec.bat? Regards, David -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Bug reporting: http://cygwin.com/bugs.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/
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