Re: .bashrc

2009-06-29 Thread Dave Tang
On Mon, 29 Jun 2009 18:43:44 +1000, Andy Koppe wrote: 2009/6/29 Dave Tang: So I've changed my home directory to /home/d.tang in my passwd file. I copied the .bashrc into my new home directory. But when I restart cygwin, it still doesn't load the .bashrc. Bash on Cygwin i

Re: .bashrc

2009-06-29 Thread Dave Tang
On Mon, 29 Jun 2009 17:41:08 +1000, Thorsten Kampe wrote: * Dave Tang (Mon, 29 Jun 2009 17:34:44 +1000) Dave, don't send emails to my private email address. Keep the Reply-to to the list. Sorry about that, will remember that. Have a look at /etc/passwd how HOME is set. Check if

Re: .bashrc

2009-06-29 Thread Dave Tang
On Mon, 29 Jun 2009 17:21:21 +1000, Thorsten Kampe wrote: * Dave Tang (Mon, 29 Jun 2009 17:11:26 +1000) >> Do you spot anything funny going on? > > Your prompt and your home directory. Looks like you're not using bash > (but zsh maybe) and not using the defaults. Ah sor

Re: .bashrc

2009-06-29 Thread Dave Tang
On Mon, 29 Jun 2009 16:52:25 +1000, Thorsten Kampe wrote: * Dave Tang (Mon, 29 Jun 2009 16:21:04 +1000) %whoami d.tang %echo $HOME /cygdrive/c/Documents and Settings/d.tang %cat /etc/passwd d.tang:unused_by_nt/2000/xp:11418:10545:d.tang,U-IMBPC\d.tang,S-1-5-21-2360347544-2198861549

Re: .bashrc

2009-06-28 Thread Dave Tang
On Mon, 29 Jun 2009 15:54:37 +1000, Linda Walsh wrote: Dave Tang wrote: Hello, I have cygwin installed on Windows XP and for some reason my .bashrc file isn't loaded on startup. I read the FAQ "Why doesn't bash read my .bashrc file on startup?" but my HOME environmen

.bashrc

2009-06-28 Thread Dave Tang
Hello, I have cygwin installed on Windows XP and for some reason my .bashrc file isn't loaded on startup. I read the FAQ "Why doesn't bash read my .bashrc file on startup?" but my HOME environment variable is set up i.e. when I echo $HOME it is correct. I actually copied my .bashrc to the r