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: <3F7F9DF5.4080204@urth.org> Date: Sat, 04 Oct 2003 21:28:37 -0700 From: Terrence Brannon User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.5) Gecko/20030925 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: cygwin@cygwin.com Subject: HOMEPATH : not changed when /etc/passwd was changed References: <3F7F1883.4070809@urth.org> <20031004230945.GC9651@redhat.com> In-Reply-To: <20031004230945.GC9651@redhat.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit I changed my username in /etc/passwd from "Terrence Brannon" to "metaperl" And was elated when clicking on the cygwin start icon to login as metaperl. However, HOMEPATH is set to \Documents\Terrence Brannon and I cannot (a) unset HOMEPATH (b) export HOMEPATH=/home/metaperl to any good effect at the shell successfully. When I try (a), Cygwin acts as if I had typed nothing: the value remains the same When I try (b), (b1) export HOMEPATH=$HOME does not change anything (b2) export HOMEPATH=/home/metaperl changes it , but then xemacs still comes up with a white on white screen when I open a shell -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/