On Thu, 6 May 2004, Reini Urban wrote: > Montana Rane schrieb: > > for the administrative user, under which cygwin was installed, echo $HOME > > returns /home/Administrator. > > This is not your problem. Please describe the problem in the message > body and not only in the subject. > > > I need to set up cygwin so it does not preface the path with /cygdrive/c as > > this breaks our existing scripts. > > You scripts most likely don't brake because of the /cygdrive/c/ prefix, > they break because of the space in the pathname. > > Solution: > Link it under your cygwin tree and fix the appropriate passwd entries. > > untested script to get the idea: > mkdir /home > for h in /cygdrive/c/documents\ and\ setting/*; do > ln -s /cygdrive/c/documents\ and\ setting/$h /home/ ^^ Missing quotes here. Should be "$h".
> done > perl -pi.bak -e's|/cygdrive/c/documents and setting/|/home/|' \ > /etc/passwd Or 'mount -s c:/Documents\ and\ Settings/ /home', if you don't mind putting up with '/home/All Users', etc... Igor -- http://cs.nyu.edu/~pechtcha/ |\ _,,,---,,_ [EMAIL PROTECTED] ZZZzz /,`.-'`' -. ;-;;,_ [EMAIL PROTECTED] |,4- ) )-,_. ,\ ( `'-' Igor Pechtchanski, Ph.D. '---''(_/--' `-'\_) fL a.k.a JaguaR-R-R-r-r-r-.-.-. Meow! "I have since come to realize that being between your mentor and his route to the bathroom is a major career booster." -- Patrick Naughton -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/