Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@cygwin.com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin@cygwin.com Message-ID: <050a01c1ae89$6d673f00$0d00a8c0@mchasecompaq> From: "Michael A Chase" To: "Laurence F. Wood" , "Cygwin@Cygwin. Com" References: Subject: Re: $HOME Directory Relocation Date: Tue, 5 Feb 2002 13:08:34 -0800 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 6.00.2600.0000 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2600.0000 If you are using bash it's done by /etc/profile, normally based on the contents of /etc/passwd. If you have set the windows environment variable HOME, it is passed through. Short answer: set HOME in your windows per user environment. -- Mac :}) ** I normally forward private questions to the appropriate mail list. ** Ask Smarter: http://www.tuxedo.org/~esr/faqs/smart-questions.htm Give a hobbit a fish and he eats fish for a day. Give a hobbit a ring and he eats fish for an age. ----- Original Message ----- From: "Laurence F. Wood" To: "Cygwin@Cygwin. Com" Sent: Tuesday, February 05, 2002 13:09 Subject: $HOME Directory Relocation > I needed to relocate the $HOME directory to another disk volume. Under > linux the login process sets this. Who/what sets $HOME under cygwin? -- 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/