On Fri, February 12, 2010 9:51 am, Neil Blue wrote: > I created the ~/.profile in response to the email from Csaba Raduly. the > bash man page does say it will look for ~/.profile as well.
It does, but you can't expect default behaviour from a non default file! ;) > The setup program creates some terminal links like: > > C:\cygwin\bin\run.exe /usr/bin/rxvt.exe -display 127.0.0.1:0 -tn > rxvt-cygwin -e /bin/bash --login > > I just removed the --login option to preserve the results of ~/.bashrc, > but then need to set up things like my prompt again as I loose the other > automatic settings. > > This was a new cygwin install, downloaded a couple of days ago. > > > I was trying to copy the skel/.bash_profile and got this: > > $ cp /etc/skel/.bash_profile ~/ > cp: not writing through dangling symlink `/home/blueneil/.bash_profile' I've no idea why you got that - somebody with more knowledge than I should be able to help... > but > cat /etc/skel/.bash_profile > ~/.bash_profile > all works as expected and calls ~/.bashrc So... all working now? J. -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple
