Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin@cygwin.com Message-ID: <3CBB07C2.7090806@wanadoo.fr> Date: Mon, 15 Apr 2002 19:02:58 +0200 From: Marc Chantreux User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:0.9.9) Gecko/20020311 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: cygwin@cygwin.com Subject: Re: load user preferences ? References: <4.3.1.2.20020415115921.0578b480@pop.ma.ultranet.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit > > >>mc@MILLENIUM:~# pwd >>/cygdrive/c/Documents and Settings/mc/_unix >>mc@MILLENIUM:~# ls -A >>.Xdefaults .bashrc .gimp-1.2 .lftp Mail _viminfo >>.bash_history .cpan .irssi .ssh Xdefaults >> >>but i was worked fine on an older install. Any idea to fix that ? >> > > >Yes. > thanks >You want to look at the email archives, > done ... >user guide, > done ... >and FAQ > done ... the only problem noticed is that the $HOME is not set ... if you see my lines, you you can see that it's done. > If you still have trouble for some reason, you'll >need to provide the list with the specifics of what you've done and the >process you follow that makes your problem occur. > hmm ... sorry for being ambigous : - i've installed cygwin with the setup.exe. the $HOME was still set with %USERPROFILE%/_unix. - it does not work. - i've tried to mount this $HOME on /home/$USERNAME without succes. BTW , i've seen that the /etc/passwd uses /home/$USER as $HOME. I've just tried : %HOME% = c:\_home\%USERNAME% and mount "c:\_home" /home failed too :( >This will give someone >the possibility of providing you with good additional suggestions. > right ... sorry again ! Marc -- 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/