Michael A Chase wrote: >> Since no login occurs, place it in your batch file calling bash, or in >> /etc/profile like I do. Here is my /etc/profile that correct many such >> environment variable problems I found over the time:
> The problem with setting HOME to a fixed value in cygwin.bat or > /etc/profile is that limits your cygwin installation to a single user. > That's why the default /etc/profile allows $HOME to be passed > through from the user's Windows environment. I never understood this about the default /etc/profile. If I run a mkpasswd -d (since I'm in a domain) I see the home field properly formatted from the NT domain controller (except I change it to /home/$USER and use a mount for /home under Cygwin). Thus my /etc/profile is: USER="`id -un`" HOME=`grep ^$USER: /etc/passwd | cut -f6 -d:` SHELL=`grep ^$USER: /etc/passwd | cut -f7 -d:` # Set up USER's home directory if [ -z "$HOME" ]; then echo "WARNING: HOME not set! Defaulting to /home/$USER." HOME="/home/$USER" fi if [ ! -d "$HOME" ]; then echo "WARNING: HOME directory did not exist! Logging in with HOME = /tmp" HOME="/tmp" fi export HOME USER SHELL -- Salira <http://www.salira.com> Ethernet Simple, Fiber Fast ------------------------------------------------------------------------ 5751 Patrick Henry Drive Santa Clara, California 95054 Phone: (408)-855-8860x121 Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]%3E> Web: http://www.salira.com Andrew DeFaria <http://www.defaria.com> Clearcase Administrator Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Home http://www.defaria.com -- 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/
