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Date: Tue, 1 Apr 2003 13:11:48 -0500 (EST)
From: Igor Pechtchanski <pechtcha AT cs DOT nyu DOT edu>
Reply-To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com
To: pd AT world DOT std DOT com
cc: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com
Subject: Re: Aliases no longer defined?
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On Tue, 1 Apr 2003 pd AT world DOT std DOT com wrote:

> On Tue, Apr 01, 2003 at 12:17:12PM -0500, Igor Pechtchanski wrote:
> > On Tue, 1 Apr 2003, Rolf Campbell wrote:
> >
> > > Igor Pechtchanski wrote:
> > > > On Tue, 1 Apr 2003, Rolf Campbell wrote:
> > > >
> > > >
> > > >>Peter Davis wrote:
> > > >>
> > > >>>Ok.  There ain't much worth cracking my system for anyway.  Here's the
> > > >>>/etc/passwd file from one machine below.
> > > >>>
> > > >>>Thanks for any help with this!
> > > >>>
> > > >>>-pd
> > > >>>
>             ...
> > > >>
> > > >>Well, you seem to have 3 accounts, one with a space in it, and one with
> > > >>different case.  Do you really have 3 different accounts?
> > > >
> > > > Rolf,
> > > >
> > > > And what does this have to do with aliases not being exported?  FWIW, the
> > > > UIDs on all 3 accounts are different...
> > > >
> > > Well, if he *thinks* he's logging on as 'pdavis', but is really logging
> > > on as 'Pdavis', then bash might be using the 'wrong' home dir.
> >
> > Ah.  I didn't see that...  Devious. :-)
> >
> > > Peter,
> > > what happens if you ". /home/pdavis/.bashrc" (without using ~)
> >
> > Peter,
> >
> > Also, what is the output of "echo ~" and "cd ~ && /bin/pwd"?
>
> $ echo ~
> /cygdrive/c/home
>
> $ cd ~ && /bin/pwd
> /cygdrive/c/home
>
> Does that help?
>
> Thanks,
> -pd

Yes, it does.  Your home directory is not correct.  Now you have to find
out why.  I think Rolf may have something there...
	Igor
P.S. Did you ever attach the output of "cygcheck -svr"?
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