On Wed, Oct 23, 2002 at 11:20:59AM +0200, Olaf Foellinger 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.
Actually, in this case it is procmail the is using your /etc/passwd
entry to set HOME. From the procmail man page, we have the following:
FILES
/etc/passwd to set the recipient's LOGNAME,
HOME and SHELL variable defaults
Jason
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