Mail Archives: cygwin/2005/11/22/14:45:15
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First, let me say... Cygwin is awesome, and the mailing lists are awesome.
It looks like a lot of work has been done to make it match a real unix.
:-)
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Brian, another great help, thank you, especially for thelink:
--- http://cygwin.com/faq/faq.setup.html#faq.setup.home
HOME is determined as follows in order of decreasing priority:
1. HOME from the Windows environment, translated to POSIX form.
2. The entry in /etc/passwd
3. HOMEDRIVE and HOMEPATH from the Windows environment
4. /
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so, %HOME% variable set in Windows takes priority over /etc/passwd
That has puzzled me for a few days because all the unix people say
"yup, change the user entry in /etc/passwd and that's your new home"
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Actually, yes I can make my own group in cygwin :-)
(just needs a little unix stuff)
i called it "local" and set the group number of 10546 arbitrarily (a number
not already used... and this is regular unix way of doing it)
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cat /etc/group
...
local:S-1-5-32-545:10546:robert.body
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and then in /etc/passwd, the 4th field I set to my newly created "local"
group
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cat /etc/group
...
robert.body:unused_by_nt/2000/xp:13550:10546:
robert.body,U-DEN\robert.body,S-1-5-21-1659004503-484061587-839522115-3550:
/cygdrive/c/home/Owner:/bin/bash
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and then ... ta-daaaa ... my own group of "local"
/cygdrive/c/cygwin/home/Owner> touch 1; ls -alp 1
-rw-r--r-- 1 robert.body local 0 Nov 22 12:17 1
/cygdrive/c/cygwin/home/Owner>
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I don't suppose there is a way of NOT letting %HOME% take priority over
"/etc/passwd" for my home directory?
Brian,since you know about so many things, how come the following ksh
doesn't work in
1) Linux xyz 2.4.7-10 #1 Thu Sep 6 17:27:27 EDT 2001 i686 unknown
2) HP-UX xyz B.11.00 U 9000/785 2004606272 unlimited-user license
the PS1 line below puts path into the title of the xterm, and puts "$PWD"
into prompt
and this works fine in bash (different section of /etc/profile), but not in
ksh
---------taken from cygwin's /etc/profile--------------------
...
ksh* | -ksh* | */ksh* | \
ksh*.exe | -ksh*.exe | */ksh*.exe )
# Set a HOSTNAME variable
typeset -l HOSTNAME
# Set a default prompt of: user AT host and current_directory
PS1='^[]0;${PWD}^G
^[[32m${USER}@${HOSTNAME} ^[[33m${PWD}^[[0m
$ '
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Basically the escape codes are being ignored in ksh, but it came from
cygwin's /etc/profile so it must be perfect right?
(i set USER=me and HOSTNAME=myserver
(I execute t2, copied cygwin file with the above):
1) cygwin-----------------running pdksh from today's setup.exe-------
$echo $0
ksh
$. /etc/profile
^[]0;/cygdrive/u^G
^[[32mrobert DOT body AT dpc6528 ^[[33m/cygdrive/u^[[0m
$
2) linux-----------------------------------
$. t2
^[]0;/tmp^G
^[[32mme AT myserver ^[[33m/tmp^[[0m
$
3) hp-----------------------------------
$. t2
^[]0;/OnSight/opscntl^G
^[[32mme AT myserver ^[[33m/OnSight/opscntl^[[0m
$
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-Robert
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