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From: "Arthur Schwarz" <aschwarz1309 AT worldnet DOT att DOT net>
To: <cygwin AT cygwin DOT com>
Subject: Wrong /home
Date: Tue, 25 Sep 2001 21:52:04 -0700
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After uninstall of B20.1 and installation of v1.3.3 my 'old' home directory
(/cygdrive/c/home2/<name>) became my home rather than my 'new' one
(/home/<name>). I've looked through the FAQ and the User's Guide, and looked
through the source (bash-2.05-7/shell.c). I've changed my /etc/passwd to
ensure that it is accessed by getpwuid in shell.c, and modified all of the
'cygnus solutions' entries in the Win98 registry to reference /home/<name>
as needed. In /etc/profile $HOME is used and I haven't found where $HOME is
exported. The easy workaround is to put a .bashrc file changing $HOME in the
'old' home and just forget it. But I'd like to find out why this is
happening and fix it (if it needs fixing) or do something to cause the 'new'
home to be referenced at shell startup. Any idea what is going on?

art




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