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From: | "Arek" <james AT verge-rpg DOT com> |
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Subject: | Install problems |
Date: | Wed, 30 Jan 2002 19:12:08 -0600 |
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I just installed cygwin today (after a long while of not having it installed...) and when I started up bash I discovered that $HOME wasn't being set correctly! After looking through the faq, I thought this might be related to me having a windows login name with a space in it, so I edited /etc/profile to explicitly set my username to james. This didn't work. After doing a bit of testing, I discovered that the following structure: if [ -z "$HOME" ]; then HOME="/home/$USER" fi was failing to set the HOME variable correctly. I was able to fix this by removing the if/fi statements and just arbitrarily setting the HOME variable. Am I going to have other problems doing this? Also, is there a known reason that the HOME variable wasn't being set correctly in the first place (it was just being set to $USER.)? My operating system is Windows ME, if that's any help... James Potts (james AT verge-rpg DOT com) -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Bug reporting: http://cygwin.com/bugs.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/
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