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: Michael Subject: setting $HOME variable Date: Mon, 8 Nov 2004 16:55:36 +0000 (UTC) Lines: 14 Message-ID: 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: main.gmane.org User-Agent: Loom/3.14 (http://gmane.org/) X-Loom-IP: 198.202.229.173 (Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0; Windows NT 5.1; .NET CLR 1.0.3705)) X-IsSubscribed: yes Ive been trying to set the home variable. i want home to be c:\cygwin\home\ ive tried setting this in the .bat files and in .bashrc but it doesnt work. If i type echo $HOME i get this /cygdrive/c/Documents and Settings/UserName Ive read that its in /etc/passwd where it actually looks for the home directory, but what do you chage? How can i set it so when i start the bash its starts in the right directory? Any help will be appreciated! -- 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/