X-Recipient: archive-cygwin@delorie.com X-SWARE-Spam-Status: No, hits=-4.7 required=5.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_00,DKIM_SIGNED,DKIM_VALID,DKIM_VALID_AU,FREEMAIL_FROM,FREEMAIL_REPLY,KHOP_RCVD_TRUST,KHOP_THREADED,RCVD_IN_DNSWL_LOW,RCVD_IN_HOSTKARMA_YE X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <198624923.20120803012834@mtu-net.ru> References: <198624923.20120803012834@mtu-net.ru> Date: Fri, 3 Aug 2012 21:27:30 +0530 Message-ID: Subject: Re: HOME directory has somehow been overridden From: Soumya Roy To: Andrey Repin Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Id: 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 Hi Andrey ! I get what you mean.... I definitely must have made a mistake while trying to fix the problem, the analogy of what I was doing is like that of black box testing, I try to fix in some way but I don't really "know" what is going on inside and I just check the result...;-) Howver as it turns out, previously when I was typing "$ ls ~" I was getting the contents of "Documents and Settings/Valnt"....but now however "$ ls ~" gives me the actual proper content of "/cygwin/home/Valnt"....which is perfect...however the basic problem still remains i.e the initial directory(after starting cygwin) that I am in is "Documents and Settings/Valnt"... so this is what I want to "fix"... Any suggestion is much appreciated. On 8/3/12, Andrey Repin wrote: > Greetings, Soumya Roy! > >> Just to give the last few lines of my /etc/passwd file:- > >> /home/SUPPORT_388945a0:/bin/bash >> VALNT:unused:1003:513:U-SMEI-EC058E66\VALNT,S-1-5-21-1614895754-178822364\ >> 8-725345543-1003:/home/VALNT:/bin/bash > > My only question: Why you're doing this? > Isn't your profile directory is a logical location for your $HOME? > Other than that, check all settings that may affect it. > Environment variable, as suggested, being one of them. > > > -- > WBR, > Andrey Repin (anrdaemon@freemail.ru) 03.08.2012, <01:27> > > Sorry for my terrible english... > > -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple