Mail Archives: cygwin/2008/01/12/15:02:50
Help with the below.
Please.
unsolicited wrote, On 1/07/08 1:20 AM:
> No doubt these questions have been asked before. However I have not
> found the answer. If someone would kindly send me a link to the answers,
> I'd appreciate it.
>
> -----
> <<<<<
> C:\cygwin\bin> bash -l -i
> Copying skeleton files.
> These files are for the user to personalise
> their cygwin experience.
>
> These will never be overwritten.
>
>
> C:\cygwin\bin>
> <<<<<
>
> What up?
>
> Background:
>
> I was using cygwin happily, but haven't for some time.
>
> Evidently, along the way, I set my XP HOME environment variable to
> I:\me, where I: is a mapped (non-local) network drive on all but 1
> computer. Local as in mapping to my own machine. Here 'net share
> Data=D:\Data', 'net use I: \\mymachine\data'.
>
> As per mailing list / google search, I have changed /etc/password 'me'
> line from /home/me to /cygdrive/i/me.
>
> But the above still happens.
>
> (1) How do I have my home directory on a network share, so I get the
> same environment regardless of the machine I'm running cygwin on.
>
> [One list message indicates home directory in passwd is not paid
> attention to, so I tried deleting it, i.e. :: - same result.]
>
> If I 'set home=/home/me' before calling bash -l -i, things work as
> expected. If I only 'bash -i' things work as expected. Including the
> ability to cd /cygdrive/i/me. If I'm in that directory and call 'bash
> -i', my .bashrc runs.
>
>
> (2) exit at $ hangs bash?
>
> bash-3.2$ exit {or Ctrl-D}
> exit
> _
>
> And that's it. bash hangs. I have to end process bash.
>
> Suggestions?
>
> TIA
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