Eric Blake wrote:
gets fired up with startxwin.bat correctly runs .bash_profile. However,
if I start another xterm from that xterm, neither .bash_profile nor
.bash_rc is run. PS1 gets reset to "$". The second xterm also loses
tab-completion functionality. I do, however, in the second xterm, get
the "Your group is currently "mkpasswd" message.
Because it might be related, I'll describe a second problem. The command
Yep, it was related - until you have run mkpasswd, /etc/passwd is
unpopulated, so cygwin doesn't know any better than to set your
home directory to:
HOME = `/cygdrive/n'
Thanks for the help. My bash_profile and bashrc are both located in /cygdrive/n, so even
with username "mkpasswd", they should still fire up according to normal bash
procedures, right?
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Poor Yorick
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