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 From: "Gary R. Van Sickle" To: Subject: RE: Windows home path Date: Wed, 16 Jul 2003 23:18:28 -0500 Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 (Normal) X-MSMail-Priority: Normal In-reply-to: <20030717034934.71F2634395@nevin.research.canon.com.au> X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2800.1165 Importance: Normal > On 16 Jul, Larry Hall wrote: > > > Anyone know why the latest cygwin uses a path with spaces in it > > > (C:\Documents and Settings\username) for its home when it > doesn't support > > > spaces in paths? > > A little more investigation suggests that if you haven't run mkpasswd > to create an /etc/passwd that contains an entry for you, then Cygwin > will choose C:\Documents and Settings\username as the HOME for the > username. > Are you sure that's it? Have you perhaps installed Dia lately? Dia sets a Windows HOME env variable to something like that, and usually that's not what you want if you want a working Cygwin installation. I'm sure other packages exist that do likewise. Check in Control Panel->System->Environment Variables and see if that's your problem. Setting HOME to what you really want your Cygwin HOME dir to be will solve the problem, and likely not affect the other app (Dia I know works fine). -- Gary R. Van Sickle Brewer. Patriot. -- 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/