Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help AT cygwin DOT com; run by ezmlm List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner AT cygwin DOT com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Message-ID: <00a301c3405e$bc0bcfa0$200aa8c0@thorin> From: "Carlo Florendo" To: Subject: Re: Doesn't chdir to /home/foo when cygwin shell is started Date: Wed, 2 Jul 2003 13:56:52 +0800 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal x-mimeole: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.00.2919.6700 Note-from-DJ: This may be spam From: "Xanana Gusmao" > My initial HOME var was: > > $ echo $HOME > C: > > $ export HOME=/home/foo > Now it works but I need to add this to a startup script or something. Open /etc/profile with your favorite text editor, and at the end of the file, add export HOME=/home/foo cd $HOME Best Regards, Carlo ------ Carlo Florendo Astra Philippines, Inc. URL: www.astra.ph www.astra.co.jp -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/