Mail Archives: cygwin/2005/01/20/14:10:57
BTW, this is an easy enough problem to 'fix'. I just tell
it to cd /home/kgreen at the end of .bashrc . That works fine.
But I shouldn't have to do this.
k
> > 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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