Mail Archives: cygwin/2005/01/19/22:16:18
On Wed, 19 Jan 2005, Green, Keith wrote:
> New problem. Never had this one before.
> In Windows, I define the HOME variable to C:\etc.
>
> However, my cygwin.bat file reads
> @echo off
> set HOME=/home/kgreen (also tried set HOME=H:\cygwin\home\kgreen )
> H:
> chdir H:\cygwin\bin
> bash --login -i
>
> and the pertinent line from /etc/passwd reads:
>
> kgreen:unused_by_nt/2000/xp:12447:10545:kgreen,U-BBB\kgreen,S-1-5-21-748114381-82326301-405542714-2447:/home/kgreen:/bin/bash
>
> BUT ... when I double click on icon (cygwin.bat), it keeps bringing me
> up in /usr/bin.
> I've tried disabling ~/.bashrc and ~/.bash_login (just in case). Same
> thing.
> The odd thing is that in the cygwin.bat file, regardless of how I set it
> (with POSIX or DOS path name), when the cygwin window comes up and I
> type echo $HOME, it has the right value in it. That is, $HOME says
> /home/kgreen.
> Also, when I put a ~/.bashrc and ~/.bash_login inside /home/kgreen, it
> uses them! So it's getting there somehow ... and then deciding on its
> own that it would rather be in /usr/bin!
You could try to start bash with "--login -i -v", which should show the
commands that are executed, and possibly explain why the directory is
changed to /usr/bin.
HTH,
Igor
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