mcbenus wrote:
Hi,
I found similar past posts here, but could not totally understand the
answers. For some reason, my HOME directory has changed one day from
/home/USER to /cygdrive/c/Documents and Settings/USER (I guess imported from
the windows settings). At the same time a program I am running using cygwin
started to much slower than before. I don't know if the two problems are
related, but first I would like to set my HOME directory back to /Home/USER.
I saw people referring to /etc/profile file, or the BASH_PROFILE file in my
(original) home directory, but I could not understand what exactly I should
write in them. I would greatly appreciate your advices. I do not master
linux/cygwin, so if you try to answer, please consider that :)
Check to see if HOME is set as an environment variable in Windows. Sounds
to me like the change happened outside of Cygwin. Something setting this
outside Cygwin is what I suspect. If you find it set there, just get rid
of it. If that doesn't work or you're forced to make the change on the
Cygwin side, just edit the '/etc/passwd' file to have the proper path
for USER. It should be easy for you to find the right spot in
'/etc/passwd' to make this change, given that you know the path you
don't want. ;-)
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A: Yes.
> Q: Are you sure?
>> A: Because it reverses the logical flow of conversation.
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