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Date:	Fri, 19 Aug 2005 21:14:35 +0200
From:	Corinna Vinschen <corinna-cygwin AT cygwin DOT com>
To:	cygwin AT cygwin DOT com
Subject:	Re: rsh , $HOME environment variable
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On Aug 19 17:33, Ram?n wrote:
> # rsh -l Administrator MYHOST set | grep HOME
> [...]
> HOME=/
> HOMEDRIVE=C:
> HOMEPATH='\cygwin\home\Administrator'
> [...]
> WHY ?? I need ~ and $HOME correctly declarated !!

I'm moved to tears.

The reason was an incorrect (better: missing) handling of $HOME
in rshd in the Cygwin code building the new environment for the
child process.  I've fixed that and uploaded a new inetutils
version 1.3.2-30 which should show up on the mirrors soon.


Corinna

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