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From: sos AT buggy DOT prospect DOT com DOT ru (Sergey Okhapkin)
Subject: RE: Login-related questions
16 Jan 1998 05:43:04 -0800 :
Message-ID: <01BD213A.B0BF2AA0.cygnus.gnu-win32@sos>
To: "'gnu-win32'" <gnu-win32 AT cygnus DOT com>,
"'Smith, Martin'"
<martin AT buntypost DOT dundee DOT ncr DOT com>

Smith, Martin wrote:
> When opening a (non-login) Bash shell, my .bashrc is read okay (after I   
> set HOME=/usr/home/martin in my environment via the NT control panel).   
> However, when I use a login shell, it seems not to read .bashrc (I no   
> longer have my colourized 'ls' for example). Why might this be?
> 

Login.exe reads /ets/passwd and sets HOME env. var. according to. Did you setted up your /etc/passwd correctly (in a unix way)?

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