Hallo ! On Wed, 23 Oct 2002, Thomas Baker wrote: > On Wed, Oct 23, 2002 at 11:47:27AM +0200, Bjoern Kahl AG Resy wrote: > > > > On Wed, Oct 23, 2002 at 11:15:34AM +0200, Thomas Baker wrote: > > > > > ..even though "echo $HOME" in a Bash window confirms that > > > > > $HOME is "/cygdrive/e". > > > > > > > > AFAIK cygwin takes the home directory from /etc/passwd. > > > > > > Oho, indeed it does, and "/home/tbaker" doesn't (yet) exist! > > > > > > Any reason I shouldn't just "vi /etc/passwd" to reset HOME to > > > "/cygdrive/e"?
> > I think its better to use mount the map /home/tbaker to the > > place your files life. > > > > If you have multiple accouts. its even better to map /home to a > > place, where all user have a directory with there username. > Looks like it might be easier just to spell out "/cygdrive/e" > in my .procmailrc instead of using the $HOME variable > there...?? For this sepical case, yes that is the quick solution. But there may exist other programs that wil get upset with a non-existing/wrong "home" entry in /etc/passwd. So, sooner or later, you better fix the root-problem, (making $HOME and "home"-entry in passwd work) than patching a lot of other scripts or tools. Have fun! Bjoern Kahl -- +---------------------------------------------------------------------+ | Dipl.-Phys. Bjoern Kahl +++ AG Embedded Systems and Robotics (RESY) | | Informatics Faculty +++ Building 48 +++ University of Kaiserslautern| | phone: +49-631-205-2654 +++ www: http://resy.informatik.uni-kl.de | +---------------------------------------------------------------------+ -- 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/
