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Date: Thu, 06 May 2004 19:40:56 +0200
From: Reini Urban <rurban AT x-ray DOT at>
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Subject: Re: echo $HOME returns /cygdrive/c/documents and setting/mrane
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Igor Pechtchanski schrieb:
> On Thu, 6 May 2004, Reini Urban wrote:
>>Montana Rane schrieb:
>>>for the administrative user, under which cygwin was installed, echo $HOME
>>>returns /home/Administrator.
>>
>>This is not your problem. Please describe the problem in the message
>>body and not only in the subject.
>>
>>
>>>I need to set up cygwin so it does not preface the path with /cygdrive/c as
>>>this breaks our existing scripts.
>>
>>You scripts most likely don't brake because of the /cygdrive/c/ prefix,
>>they break because of the space in the pathname.
>>
>>Solution:
>>Link it under your cygwin tree and fix the appropriate passwd entries.
>>
>>untested script to get the idea:
>>mkdir /home
>>for h in /cygdrive/c/documents\ and\ setting/*; do
>>   ln -s /cygdrive/c/documents\ and\ setting/$h /home/
> 
>                                                ^^
> Missing quotes here.  Should be "$h".
> 
> 
>>done
>>perl -pi.bak -e's|/cygdrive/c/documents and setting/|/home/|' \
>>      /etc/passwd
> 
> 
> Or 'mount -s c:/Documents\ and\ Settings/ /home', if you don't mind
> putting up with '/home/All Users', etc...

Sure, mount is the method which is used more often.
And it is faster and easier.
But it is not as transparent to the poor end-user as the symlinks.
He will not see /home when doing "ls /"

And with
HOME = C:/Dokumente\ und\ Einstellungen/Someuser/Eigene\ Dateien
it's much easier to administrate with symlinks also.
-- 
Reini Urban
http://xarch.tu-graz.ac.at/home/rurban/


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