X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Message-ID: Date: Mon, 20 Mar 2006 11:22:00 -0500 From: "Brett Serkez" To: cygwin@cygwin.com Subject: Re: newbie:Missing .bashrc and other startups In-Reply-To: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Disposition: inline References: X-IsSubscribed: yes Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Unsubscribe: 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 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-MIME-Autoconverted: from quoted-printable to 8bit by delorie.com id k2KGMBLs022427 > I installed cygwin but did not select enough tools. Took about 4 installs > before I thought I got all the stuff I needed, x11, etc, etc. However, there > is no .bashrc nor .bash_profile. cd /home/xxx does nothing except report home > does not exist. echo $HOME does work. Is there a fix for this? What did I > fail to setup? I looked at a friends system and his home directory has all > the bash stuff that I am missing. Shall i uninstall and then select everything > and re-install? I googled but didnt see this problem. Have you started a login shell? The first time you start a login shell for a given user, the files in /etc/skel are used to create a home directory for that user. This is a bit different than a UNIX system that uses these files at the time the account is created. Brett -- 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/