Re: db_home setting in nsswitch.conf is ignored.

2015-07-24 Thread Andrey Repin
Greetings, Buchbinder, Barry (NIH/NIAID) [E]! > Suggestion for the Cygwin developers: > What about a file in /etc that contains contain environmental variables > that sets cygwin-specific variables and overrides anything in Windows' > environment? You can do it yourself by creating /etc/environm

RE: db_home setting in nsswitch.conf is ignored.

2015-07-24 Thread Buchbinder, Barry (NIH/NIAID) [E]
Suggestion for the Cygwin developers: What about a file in /etc that contains contain environmental variables that sets cygwin-specific variables and overrides anything in Windows' environment? It would also make it possible to clone an installation by copying - no need to modify the environment.

Re: db_home setting in nsswitch.conf is ignored.

2015-07-23 Thread Shaun Martin
Thank you both for trying to help me out. I'm primarily a web developer and lack much of the system admin knowledge that would definitely help in this situation. > > Yes, HOME is set in the Windows environment and I am not able to change it. > > How so?... > > > With the "SET" command in a

Re: db_home setting in nsswitch.conf is ignored.

2015-07-23 Thread Corinna Vinschen
On Jul 23 00:53, Andrey Repin wrote: > Greetings, Shaun Martin! > > >> Is HOME set in the Windows environment already? If so, this > >> might interact with the setting in /etc/nsswitch.conf, which *only* > >> works for entries taken from the passwd DB (getpwnam, getpwuid calls). > >> > >> How do

Re: db_home setting in nsswitch.conf is ignored.

2015-07-22 Thread Andrey Repin
Greetings, Shaun Martin! >> Is HOME set in the Windows environment already? If so, this >> might interact with the setting in /etc/nsswitch.conf, which *only* >> works for entries taken from the passwd DB (getpwnam, getpwuid calls). >> >> How do you start mintty? It should be started with a sin

Re: db_home setting in nsswitch.conf is ignored.

2015-07-22 Thread Shaun Martin
> Is HOME set in the Windows environment already? If so, this > might interact with the setting in /etc/nsswitch.conf, which *only* > works for entries taken from the passwd DB (getpwnam, getpwuid calls). > > How do you start mintty? It should be started with a single parameter, > a dash, e.g.:

Re: db_home setting in nsswitch.conf is ignored.

2015-07-22 Thread Corinna Vinschen
On Jul 22 15:33, Shaun Martin wrote: > I'm trying to set the HOME directory of Cygwin to a local folder. My computer > is on a network and the Windows HOME variable is being mapped to a network > drive. I'm not able to change this. And for some reason, this causes the > default HOME directory fo