Mail Archives: cygwin/2002/06/11/04:30:03
On Mon, Jun 10, 2002 at 03:51:40PM -0400, Jason House wrote:
> I did not know of #1, although I would have been fairly happy with that
> solution. (I currently do both #2 and #3 to be safe)
>
> I originally began with setting the HOME variable (like PATH) in order
> to make other unix ports (ie. emacs, ucd-snmp, etc...) work.
>
> Just doing #2 worked fine for me. My /home/Administrator was empty
> anyway. I didn't hit into any trouble, but I did #3 (also) in order to
> "do it right".
>
> I guess it would be nice if setting HOME had the desired effect on
> procmail... but I don't think modifying the source is the right way to
> do it. Maybe cygwin should warn about inconsistencies between
> /etc/passwd and HOME (which apparently overrides /etc/passwd). I looked
> in /etc/profile and it doesn't seem to make any distinction there
> between where HOME comes from. I don't know where else to look...
>
> Hopefully my comments are useful :)
Yes this is very useful. I wish I knew what the point of this Administrator
account is. On my Cygwin installation, there are only three files under the
entire /home directory:
Administrator/dead.letter
Administrator/mail/saved-messages
Administrator/mail/sent-mail
The "dead.letter" file accumulates just the _bodies_ of
(presumably) email messages interrupted during composing.
The latter two files are initialized with "DON'T DELETE
THESE HEADERS -- FOLDER-INTERNAL DATA". It all seems very
harmless -- nothing "root-like" about it.
>
> Thomas Baker wrote:
> >
> > I am finding exactly what Jason found -- when I add a "-f"
> > argument to /usr/bin/procmail (under Cygwin), everything fails
> > because it suddenly wants to access /home/Administrator.
> > This reminds me of another little quirk that has been
> > bothering me: about one time in ten, when I "reply" in Mutt
> > -- and I haven't been able to tell under which particular
> > circumstances -- the message comes up with my name expanded
> > to "Administrator\\MyMachine" (or something like that) and
> > I have to replace this manually with "Thomas Baker".
> >
> > Anyway, several solutions were suggested:
> >
> > 1) A simple .procmailrc at /home/Administrator that says:
> > INCLUDERC=[pathname];
> >
> > 2) Removing /home/Administrator and making it a "simulink"
> > (a "symbolic link"?) to a home directory;
> >
> > 3) Change /home/Administrator to something else in /etc/passwd.
> >
> > Jason had good experience with #2 (still, two weeks later?),
> > but messing with Cygwin's /home/Administrator makes me nervous
> > about unforeseen dire consequences. What is the role of the
> > (presumably WIN2000) Administrator under Cygwin? Maybe it's
> > just "symbolic"? Has anyone tried solutions #1 and #3?
> >
> > Tom
> >
> > On Thu, May 30, 2002 at 04:40:24PM -0400, Jason House wrote:
> > > Nice solution :) I like it.
> > >
> > > Removing /home/Administrator and making it a simulink to my desired home
> > > works perfectly. It is also a very easy thing to recreate in the event
> > > of a full restore... I also allows me to remove my hacks to avoid using
> > > $HOME.
> > >
> > > Now I get to hunt down a good .muttrc file :)
> > >
> > > Heribert Dahms wrote:
> > > >
> > > > Hi Jason(s),
> > > >
> > > > did you try a symlink?
> > > > You might even store a script to recreate that in your backuped area 8-)
> > > >
> > > > Bye, Heribert (heribert_dahms AT icon-scm DOT com)
> > > >
> > > > > -----Original Message-----
> > > > > From: Jason House [SMTP:jhouse AT mitre DOT org]
> > > > > Sent: Thursday, May 30, 2002 22:21
> > > > > To: Jason Tishler
> > > > > Cc: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com
> > > > > Subject: Re: procmail output file format.
> > > > >
> > > > [Heribert] [snip]
> > > >
> > > > > Something like having /home/Administrator/.procmailrc simply say "use
> > > > > /Docume~1/jhouse/MyDocu~1/UnixHome/.procmailrc" would be better since it
> > > > > guarantees that it won't get deleted after it grows in complexity.
> > > > >
> > > > [Heribert] [snip]
> > >
> > >
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