Re: HOME directory has somehow been overridden

2012-08-07 Thread Andrey Repin
Greetings, Soumya Roy! Please, don't top-post. > Howver as it turns out, previously when I was typing "$ ls ~"I was > getting the contents of "Documents and Settings/Valnt"but now > however "$ ls ~" gives me the actual proper content of > "/cygwin/home/Valnt"which is perfect...howev

Re: HOME directory has somehow been overridden

2012-08-03 Thread Soumya Roy
Hi Andrey ! I get what you mean I definitely must have made a mistake while trying to fix the problem, the analogy of what I was doing is like that of black box testing, I try to fix in some way but I don't really "know" what is going on inside and I just check the result...;-) Howver as it tu

Re: HOME directory has somehow been overridden

2012-08-02 Thread Andrew DeFaria
On 8/2/2012 2:28 PM, Andrey Repin wrote: Greetings, Soumya Roy! Just to give the last few lines of my /etc/passwd file:- /home/SUPPORT_388945a0:/bin/bash VALNT:unused:1003:513:U-SMEI-EC058E66\VALNT,S-1-5-21-1614895754-178822364\ 8-725345543-1003:/home/VALNT:/bin/bash My only question: Why you'

Re: HOME directory has somehow been overridden

2012-08-02 Thread Andrey Repin
Greetings, Soumya Roy! > Just to give the last few lines of my /etc/passwd file:- > /home/SUPPORT_388945a0:/bin/bash > VALNT:unused:1003:513:U-SMEI-EC058E66\VALNT,S-1-5-21-1614895754-178822364\ > 8-725345543-1003:/home/VALNT:/bin/bash My only question: Why you're doing this? Isn't your profile d

Re: HOME directory has somehow been overridden

2012-08-02 Thread Soumya Roy
Just to give the last few lines of my /etc/passwd file:- /home/SUPPORT_388945a0:/bin/bash VALNT:unused:1003:513:U-SMEI-EC058E66\VALNT,S-1-5-21-1614895754-178822364\ 8-725345543-1003:/home/VALNT:/bin/bash thanks On 8/2/12, Soumya Roy wrote: > Hi everybody, > first of all I'm not a 'knows the ins

Re: HOME directory has somehow been overridden

2012-08-02 Thread Earnie Boyd
On Thu, Aug 2, 2012 at 1:28 PM, Soumya Roy wrote: > Well my life went fine until later on I fired up cygwin and realized > that my intial directory has now been changed from > "c:/cygwin/home/username" to "c:/Documents and Settings/username"... Look for a HOME environment variable set in the Windo

HOME directory has somehow been overridden

2012-08-02 Thread Soumya Roy
Hi everybody, first of all I'm not a 'knows the ins and outs' user of cygwin(although I absolutely love using it and would like to become one!!). My problems began(I think) when I installed heroku toolbelt for facebook app creation...I went through some initial hiccups(with ssh etc) and had to solv