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 To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com From: Ronald Landheer-Cieslak Subject: Re: home directory. Date: Wed, 16 Jun 2004 14:23:39 -0400 Lines: 29 Message-ID: References: <40D08BF5 DOT 1010700 AT cox DOT net> <20040616191455 DOT Q35039 AT unsane DOT co DOT uk> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Complaints-To: usenet AT sea DOT gmane DOT org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: dslcom1-156.express.oricom.ca User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7) Gecko/20040608 In-Reply-To: <20040616191455.Q35039@unsane.co.uk> Reply-To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Vince Hoffman wrote: > > On Wed, 16 Jun 2004, Chris W wrote: > > >>It seems that somewhere $HOME is getting set to /cygdrive/c. I want it >>to be /home/$USER like the /etc/profile would set it to if it wasn't >>already set to /cygdrive/c. So where do I change that? >> > > Have a look at your windows environment variables. (type set from a > windows command prompt) or to see and change them (if on 2k/xp not sure > for 9x its been too long,) right click "my computer", select > properties, then select the "advanced' tab, then select environment > variables. When you've done that, if HOME is set there, some program you've already installed probably needs it for something. You should probably edit your cygwin.bat to set it to something more appropriate for Cygwin and leave the one in your Windows environment alone.. Unless, of course, you know what you're doing and/or you want to use Cygwin applications that use the HOME environment variable outside of the shell presented by cygwin.bat, in which case your Windows settings is what you want to change.. HTH rlc -- 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/