Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@sourceware.cygnus.com; run by ezmlm List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@sources.redhat.com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin@sources.redhat.com From: "Ronald Landheer" To: "Jordan Halsey" , "cgwin_list" Subject: RE: Home variable question Date: Tue, 2 Oct 2001 01:00:43 +0200 Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="Windows-1252" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 (Normal) X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook IMO, Build 9.0.2416 (9.0.2910.0) X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2600.0000 In-Reply-To: Importance: Normal Have a look at /etc/profile - it should contain what you're looking for. Greetz! Ronald > -----Original Message----- > From: cygwin-owner@sources.redhat.com > [mailto:cygwin-owner@sources.redhat.com]On Behalf Of Jordan Halsey > Sent: Monday, October 01, 2001 4:37 PM > To: cgwin_list > Subject: Home variable question > > > > ------ Forwarded Message > From: Jordan Halsey > Date: Fri, 28 Sep 2001 08:06:05 -0700 > To: > Subject: Home variable question > > As someone suggested I set my home home variable to > > HOME=C:/cygwin/home/$USER > > Which allowed the shell to address the individual user but also created a > folder called $USER in my c:/cygwin/home directory where it > expected to find > my .bash_profile which instead resides in the individual users > dir. The end > result is that bash doesn't read in any of my settings or aliases unless I > move my .bash_profile into ~/$USER allowing me only one > .bash_profile. So my > question is how can I set my HOME variable so that bash will know > what user > is logged on and also source the correct .bash_profile? Is it > possible that > I could put something like username.bash_profile into the folder $USER and > store all profiles here? > > Sorry if this is basic but I am just getting the hang of this. > > > -- > Jordan Halsey > maya|shake|prman|eias|formZ|ae > Parallax Visuals > http://www.parallaxvisuals.com > > ------ End of Forwarded Message > > > -- > Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple > Bug reporting: http://cygwin.com/bugs.html > Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html > FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ > -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Bug reporting: http://cygwin.com/bugs.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/