Hi Andrey ! I get what you mean.... I definitely must have made a mistake while trying to fix the problem, the analogy of what I was doing is like that of black box testing, I try to fix in some way but I don't really "know" what is going on inside and I just check the result...;-) Howver as it turns out, previously when I was typing "$ ls ~" I was getting the contents of "Documents and Settings/Valnt"....but now however "$ ls ~" gives me the actual proper content of "/cygwin/home/Valnt"....which is perfect...however the basic problem still remains i.e the initial directory(after starting cygwin) that I am in is "Documents and Settings/Valnt"... so this is what I want to "fix"... Any suggestion is much appreciated.
On 8/3/12, Andrey Repin <anrdae...@freemail.ru> wrote: > Greetings, Soumya Roy! > >> Just to give the last few lines of my /etc/passwd file:- > >> /home/SUPPORT_388945a0:/bin/bash >> VALNT:unused:1003:513:U-SMEI-EC058E66\VALNT,S-1-5-21-1614895754-178822364\ >> 8-725345543-1003:/home/VALNT:/bin/bash > > My only question: Why you're doing this? > Isn't your profile directory is a logical location for your $HOME? > Other than that, check all settings that may affect it. > Environment variable, as suggested, being one of them. > > > -- > WBR, > Andrey Repin (anrdae...@freemail.ru) 03.08.2012, <01:27> > > Sorry for my terrible english... > > -- 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
