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Date:	Wed, 22 Sep 2004 12:31:31 +1000 (EST)
From:	luke DOT kendall AT cisra DOT canon DOT com DOT au
Subject:	Request for change to /etc/profile
To:	cygwin AT cygwin DOT com
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Message-Id:	<20040922023131.BDA8984CB1@pessard.research.canon.com.au>

Could /etc/profile please get a small change?  Could it check that
mkdir $HOME works?

Our situation is that for laptops, the /home area exists on a PGP
mounted disc.  But if a user isn't logged in, then this area doesn't
exist, and you can't mount any home drives.

So if you slogin to the machine, you get a lot of erroneous actions
from the body of that "if" statement.

$ diff /etc/profile /etc/profile.orig
38,39c38
< if [ ! -d "$HOME" ] && mkdir "$HOME"
< then
---
> if [ ! -d "$HOME" ]; then

Regards,

luke


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