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Hi Rob --

I had a similar problem.  It turns out some windows program had defined 
$HOME, and this supersedes cygwin's $HOME.

On win2k I removed it from:

my computer -> properties -> advanced -> environment variables -> user 
defined variables

--ra

At 06:44 PM 1/11/2002, you wrote:
>Rob,
>
>Am 2002-01-12 um 00:18 schriebst du:
>
> >> How do I change my start up directory?
>
> > I got the following response:
>
> >> edit your entry in /etc/passwd.  It lists your home directory.
>
>1. no need to edit the /etc/passwd file, create one with `mkpasswd'.
>
>2. it depends how you start the bash shell (at least for me), if I run
>    x:\cygwin\bin\rxvt.exe --options -e bash ...  directly
>from a shortcut the shell opens in the directory where the shortcut
>is stored (desktop for me), if I run the same command from a batch file
>which is stored at the Cygwin root it works correct and the bash opens in
>my home dir as it is defined it in /etc/passwd.
>
>
> > However, I don't understand how my system is working at the moment. This is
> > what I see at startup when do a "pwd":
>
> > Robert Mark Bram AT ROB ~
>
>You should also avoid spaces in your user/pathname!
>
> > $ pwd
> > /cygdrive/c/PROGRA~1/RATIONAL/RATION~1/NUTCROOT
>
> > Robert Mark Bram AT ROB ~
> > $
>
> > And this is the contents of my /etc/passwd:
> > Robert Mark Bram::500:544::/home/Robert Mark Bram:/bin/bash
>
>Don't use spaces in your username.
>
> > It is such a strange start up directory - a folder for Rational Rose. 
> When I
> > check my environment variables I find these two:
>
> > NUTCROOT=C:\PROGRA~1\RATIONAL\RATION~1\NUTCROOT
>
> > TERM=nutc
>
> > Does anyone know how I should fix this without changing my environment
> > variables?
>
>More information probably in the FAQ and the docu, links at the bottom.
>
>Gerrit
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