Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help AT sourceware DOT cygnus DOT com; run by ezmlm List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner AT sources DOT redhat DOT com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin AT sources DOT redhat DOT com From: "Alex Malinovich" To: Subject: Mysterious $HOME issue Date: Wed, 10 Oct 2001 18:48:58 -0500 Message-ID: <001101c151e6$251c8ac0$0400a8c0@TheLoveShack.local> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 (Normal) X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook, Build 10.0.2627 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2526.0000 Importance: Normal I'm having a very strange problem with my $HOME env var misbehaving. Some programs (such as ncftp) are using a mapped network drive (U:) as my default path. This is the correct _DEFAULT_ system path that the company uses, but I have long since changed this (in System Properties in W2K). I have changed every relevant home-type env var with no luck. I've made a LITTLE progress by changing some of the vars in my /etc/profile but nothing significant. (my .bash_history was being written to U: as well, but updating the path in /etc/profile fixed it.) ncftp still creates .ncftp on the network drive even though "set" returns HOME="/home/myusername". This problem originally manifested itself immediately BEFORE I last updated cygwin. While I am quite sure that this is NOT a bug with cygwin, I'm afraid that I really don't know where else to look to correct it. TIA -Alex p.s. I don't know if this is in any way related, but the "bookmarks" cmd (in ncftp) stopped working at the same time. (i.e. It doesn't open up with 0 entries, it just doesn't open up, period. -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Bug reporting: http://cygwin.com/bugs.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/