Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm
Sender: cygwin-owner@cygwin.com
Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com
Message-ID: <40D095A0.8050605@cox.net>
Date: Wed, 16 Jun 2004 13:46:56 -0500
From: Chris W <1qazse4@cox.net>
User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.5) Gecko/20031007
MIME-Version: 1.0
To: cygwin@cygwin.com
Subject: Re: home directory.
References: <40D08BF5.1010700@cox.net> <20040616191455.Q35039@unsane.co.uk>
In-Reply-To: <20040616191455.Q35039@unsane.co.uk>
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed
Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit

Vince Hoffman wrote:

>On Wed, 16 Jun 2004, Chris W wrote:
>
>  
>
>>It seems that somewhere $HOME is getting set to /cygdrive/c.  I want it
>>to be /home/$USER like the /etc/profile would set it to if it wasn't
>>already set to /cygdrive/c.  So where do I change that?
>>
>>    
>>
>Have a look at your windows environment variables. (type set from a
>windows command prompt) or to see and change them (if on 2k/xp not sure
>for 9x its been too long,) right click "my computer", select
>properties, then select the "advanced' tab, then select environment
>variables.
>  
>

I run set|grep HOME and sure enough HOME is set to cygdrive/c.  So I go 
to the environment vars from the my computer properties dialog but I 
can't find an entry for HOME in fact when I type set I get a MUCH longer 
list of environment vars than I see in the dialog box.  I also looked in 
the cygwin.bat file and all that is in there is this...
@echo off

C:
chdir \cygwin\bin

bash --login -i

so where might that HOME var be getting set?  BTW I am runing win2k


-- 
Chris W

Bring Back the HP 15C
http://hp15c.org

Not getting the gifts you want?  The Wish Zone can help.
http://thewishzone.com


--
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/