Hi Csaba, "Sebastien Vauban" wrote: > Csaba Raduly wrote: >> On Mon, Aug 1, 2011 at 8:49 AM, Sebastien Vauban wrote: >>> Andrey Repin wrote: >>>> Moreover, the very first line is wrong. >>>> >>>> Must be >>>> >>>> alias vpnup='exec sudo openvpn --config $HOME/config/client.vpn --writepid >>>> /tmp/openvpn.pid &' >>>> >>>> that's where his problem began, IMO. >> >> If you want the same alias to work on Cygwin and Linux, you should set >> up your $HOME on Cygwin to contain config/client.vpn >> You can set your home in /etc/passwd and point it to /cygdrive/c/home >> (this may have been mentioned already). >> The idea is to always refer to the VPN config as >> ${HOME}/config/client.vpn and ensure that Cygwin can access it that >> way. > > I, maybe, have done it the completely wrong way(TM). As it currently is, I've > defined an environment variable in Windows itself: > > HOME=c:/home/sva > > I did not touch so far /etc/passwd. The only visible effect of this is that > when firing up a bash terminal, the default directory is set to: > > c:/Documents and Settings/Sebastien > > OK, I will update my HOME directory in /etc/passwd. Thanks for the reminder.
Just wanted to do the above. Though, I just realized I had already done it -- months ago, then: Sebastien:unused:1007:513:Fabrice,U-MEDIACENTER\Fabrice,S-1-5-21-57802372-1363436062-342225281-1007:/cygdrive/c/home/sva:/bin/bash So, the fact the default directory is set to the Windows one is not due to it. > Do I have, though, to define HOME in Windows, in Cygwin (.bashrc or such), or > nowhere? Best regards, Seb -- Sebastien Vauban -- 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