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On Tue, Feb 23, 2010 at 4:44 PM, Larry Hall (Cygwin) <reply-to-list-only-lh AT cygwin DOT com> wrote: >>> Evidently if it does not find /home/TBaker/.procmailrc, it does >>> not go looking for /home/tbaker/.procmailrc. =C2=A0Since my entire >>> file system is based on tbaker, I'd love to find a way to eradicate >>> the "TBaker" from my system entirely. =C2=A0The guy who set up my XP >>> installation many years ago set my login as "TBaker" but it has >>> never caused any practical problems until now. > > He should still be shot. ;-) Maybe along with the IBM guy who swapped Ctrl with CapsLock :-) > Yeah, I wouldn't go that far when a symbolic link to /home/tbaker would > suffice. Yes indeed! $ cd /home $ mv TBaker TBaker.bak $ ln -s /home/tbaker TBaker Now everything works fine again! :-) >> It would be nicer to expunge any references to "TBaker" entirely. >> I guess they are in the Win32 registry? =C2=A0I do not find any in my >> cygwin configuration files. I guess that's unnecessary now... > <http://cygwin.com/cygwin-ug-net/ov-new1.7.html> Yes, I had indeed scanned through that bulletin but didn't see this one coming, if it was indeed a "1.7 update" issue at all. I guess the issues around the "missing" APLs (see above): group:root:rwx group:SYSTEM:rwx turned out to be irrelevant? > Changing the user name in '/etc/passwd' to use the proper case should > resolve the problem though. $ vim /etc/passwd has apparently fixed everything. Much easier than migrating my whole system from XP to Windows 7. Thank you, all, for your patience and attention to detail! :-) Tom --=20 Tom Baker -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple
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