On Fri, Jun 25, 2004 at 07:45:48AM -0700, Erik Weibust wrote: > I just had my XP machine at work rebuilt and the first > thing I went to install was cygwin. I went with a > complete "everything" install. The problem is the > same one I've seen before. When the install is > complete I run the shortcut to start cygwin and get a > vague message that makes me think the install didn't > "go so well".
As explained in the mkpasswd man page, the home directory in /etc/passwd comes from the Windows home directory specified in your Windows user profile, if any. Else it has the form /home/username > The work around is easy. I edit /etc/passwd in > notepad and change what cygwin uses for $HOME from > /cygdrive/h to /home/erikweibust. > > /home/erikweibust was not created as part of the > install. I think I've had it created before on other > machines on the "first use" of cygwin. I'm not sure > why I get this problem. Is cygwin trying to use some > XP env vars on it's first start? Cygwin will normally create the $HOME directory when running bash, specifically in /etc/profile. You seem to assume that $HOME must be coming from /etc/passwd. As explained in /etc/profile, it can also be inherited by Cygwin from Windows. So the answer to your question is "yes". Pierre -- 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/
