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 To: cygwin@cygwin.com From: Thorsten Kampe Subject: Re: PATH and HOME in cygwin Date: Wed, 2 Jun 2004 19:21:08 +0200 Lines: 23 Message-ID: <2z2t9mp046cj$.dlg@thorstenkampe.de> References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: isi-dialin-129-102.isionline-dialin.de User-Agent: 40tude_Dialog/2.0.12.1de * David Fay (2004-06-02 13:50 +0100) > I am trying to set my PATH and HOME in cygwin. Why? Didn't you have these yet? Didn't you like them? > Under the /etc/profile file it says to change the bashrc.bash file > and I have amended this but still no change. You didn't read a few lines more in /etc/profile until it says "Here is how HOME is set, in order of priority, when starting from Windows", did you? > I also see there is a .bash_profile file in both the > /etc/defaults/etc/skel and /etc/skel. I originally thought that > this is the file I would amend but I expected this to be in my > home directory. Any suggestions? Please read the fscking bash manual - especially the FILES section at the bottom. Otherwise nice people will start telling you things in a way you'll surely won't like. Hint: the manual doesn't mention /etc/bashrc - so it's up to YOU to make sure it gets sourced. Thorsten -- 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/