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Date: Thu, 06 Jun 2002 11:09:41 -0400
To: Anthony Rabaa <rabaa AT elorian DOT com>, cygwin AT cygwin DOT com
From: "Larry Hall (RFK Partners, Inc)" <lhall AT rfk DOT com>
Subject: Re: cannot create directory on startup
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At 11:00 AM 6/6/2002, Anthony Rabaa wrote:
>Before I begin I want to apologize for this posting.  I scoured the archives looking for an answer but I am not sure where this problem is originating from and didn't get very far.  I also tried using the search engine but it rarely returned and when it did, the topics had little/nothing to do with my problem (or my search string).
>
>I've installed cygwin repeatedly on my W2K system with different packages (varying from default to installing everything) and I continue to receive the following error each time I run the cygwin.bat file or enter the command 'bash -login -i'.
>
>mkdir: cannot create directory `/cygdrive/c/SF|home': No such file or directory
>bash: cd: /cygdrive/c/SF|home: No such file or directory
>
>I've also noticed that $HOME = '/cygdrive/c/SF|home'.  The directory 'SF' does not exist anymore.  It was originally used as a test install of SourceForge.  Any help would be appreciated, I would like to use cygwin to interact with our CVS server (linux) and would like to have the environment variables set up in my startup script.
>


OK, I guess the "test install of SourceForge" set HOME to this directory.
You need to figure out where that was done and eradicate it, since it 
seems to be left-over and causing the problem.  As a few hints, depending
on your OS, you should look for this in the settings underneath the 
control panel applet, your autoexec.bat, and/or any other batch files that
get run on your system as part of the start-up.

Good luck,




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RFK Partners, Inc.                      http://www.rfk.com
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