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Date: Wed, 23 Oct 2002 11:39:16 +0200
From: Thomas Baker <thomas DOT baker AT bi DOT fhg DOT de>
To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com
Subject: Re: Cygwin/Procmail stops working after setup.exe upgrade
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On Wed, Oct 23, 2002 at 11:20:59AM +0200, Olaf Foellinger wrote:
> On Wed, Oct 23, 2002 at 11:15:34AM +0200, Thomas Baker wrote:
> > ..even though "echo $HOME" in a Bash window confirms that 
> > $HOME is "/cygdrive/e".
> 
> AFAIK cygwin takes the home directory from /etc/passwd.

Oho, indeed it does, and "/home/tbaker" doesn't (yet) exist!

Any reason I shouldn't just "vi /etc/passwd" to reset HOME to
"/cygdrive/e"?

Tom

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