At 02:46 PM 6/16/2004, you wrote: >Vince Hoffman wrote: > >>On Wed, 16 Jun 2004, Chris W wrote: >> >> >> >>>It seems that somewhere $HOME is getting set to /cygdrive/c. I want it >>>to be /home/$USER like the /etc/profile would set it to if it wasn't >>>already set to /cygdrive/c. So where do I change that? >>> >>> >>Have a look at your windows environment variables. (type set from a >>windows command prompt) or to see and change them (if on 2k/xp not sure >>for 9x its been too long,) right click "my computer", select >>properties, then select the "advanced' tab, then select environment >>variables. >> > >I run set|grep HOME and sure enough HOME is set to cygdrive/c. So I go to the >environment vars from the my computer properties dialog but I can't find an entry for >HOME in fact when I type set I get a MUCH longer list of environment vars than I see >in the dialog box. I also looked in the cygwin.bat file and all that is in there is >this... >@echo off > >C: >chdir \cygwin\bin > >bash --login -i > >so where might that HOME var be getting set? BTW I am runing win2k
Look at 'etc/defaults/etc/profile'. It explains how Cygwin looks for and determines what to set HOME to. You should be able to track what's going on from there. -- Larry Hall http://www.rfk.com RFK Partners, Inc. (508) 893-9779 - RFK Office 838 Washington Street (508) 893-9889 - FAX Holliston, MA 01746 -- 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/
