Mr. Kampe: I understand your frustration, but your experience is not everyone's.
So far, I've installed cygwin on 7 different machines. One Windows 98, two Windows XP and at least 4 Windows 2000 systems. Of the seven, all were installed from the Internet, all were done at different points in Cygwin's development, all were clean installs (no previous version of Cygwin existed) and NONE of them have an /etc/profile file. All have an /etc/profile.d directory. None have gone through the postinstall scripts without at least one of them hanging. Only after some time have I gotten man to work. It is clear the Mr. Fay doesn't understand bash well. He obviously doesn't know the purpose of /etc/skel. He may not understand man. If he's just doing a man command, there's a lot of information that gets scrolled by. It takes a dozen or more readings before you understand it all, presuming you've never used a Unix shell before. I had to set PATH and HOME in my Windows environment to get them to be set properly in Cygwin. I would think telling Mr. Fay that he needs to set them in the Windows environment would have been a much more useful reply. Suggesting the reading of a book on shells wouldn't be quite useful either, since Cygwin does things just a little differently. A pointer to the Cygwin document might have helped. I'm still looking for it. Chris Carlson iStor Networks, Inc. -----Original Message----- From: Thorsten Kampe [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, June 02, 2004 10:21 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: PATH and HOME in cygwin * David Fay (2004-06-02 13:50 +0100) > I am trying to set my PATH and HOME in cygwin. Why? Didn't you have these yet? Didn't you like them? > Under the /etc/profile file it says to change the bashrc.bash file > and I have amended this but still no change. You didn't read a few lines more in /etc/profile until it says "Here is how HOME is set, in order of priority, when starting from Windows", did you? > I also see there is a .bash_profile file in both the > /etc/defaults/etc/skel and /etc/skel. I originally thought that > this is the file I would amend but I expected this to be in my > home directory. Any suggestions? Please read the fscking bash manual - especially the FILES section at the bottom. Otherwise nice people will start telling you things in a way you'll surely won't like. Hint: the manual doesn't mention /etc/bashrc - so it's up to YOU to make sure it gets sourced. Thorsten -- 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/ -- 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/
