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Subject: RE: Patch to /etc/profile to deal with $HOME with a space
Date: Tue, 30 Nov 2004 13:00:35 -0500
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From: "Harig, Mark" <maharig AT idirect DOT net>
To: "William R. Knox" <wknox AT mitre DOT org>, <cygwin AT cygwin DOT com>
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1. Thank you for the patch file.

2. More fundamentally, this is a problem in 
   /etc/defaults/etc/profile, instead of with /etc/profile.

3. This file belongs to the 'base-files' package:

   $ /usr/bin/cygcheck -f /etc/defaults/etc/profile
   base-files-3.1-4

4. This problem could be reported to Bugzilla, with
   a patch file attachment.  Please see

   http://sourceware.org/bugzilla/enter_bug.cgi?product=cygwin

   and select 'Cygwin Applications' as the Component.

   After you have entered the Summary and Description, revisit
   the Bugzilla report, and click on the 'Create new attachment'
   link.  It will allow you to attach a patch file, and select
   that type of file.

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> -----Original Message-----
> From: William R. Knox
> Sent: Tuesday, November 30, 2004 12:38 PM
> Subject: Patch to /etc/profile to deal with $HOME with a space
> 
> 
> I have just set up Cygwin, and noticed that my default home 
> was under my
> "Documents and Settings" directory (not yet having run 
> mkpasswd). However,
> the /etc/profile setup which tries to only create the warning message
> about running mkpasswd and mkgroup once can't deal with a 
> HOME environment
> variable with a space in it. Here is a patch to allow that to work:
> 
> --- /etc/profile    2004-11-26 14:53:34.477082000 -0500
> +++ /etc/profile    2004-11-30 11:22:32.175340300 -0500
> @@ -194,10 +194,10 @@
>    echo "and can be safely ignored."
> 
>    # only display the above once
> -  cp -f /etc/group ${HOME}/group.mkgroup_l_d \
> +  cp -f /etc/group "${HOME}/group.mkgroup_l_d" \
>    && ( [ -w /etc/group ] || chmod --silent a+w /etc/group ; )\
> -  && sed -e 's/^mkgroup_l_d/mkgroup-l-d/' 
> ${HOME}/group.mkgroup_l_d > /etc/grou
> p \
> +  && sed -e 's/^mkgroup_l_d/mkgroup-l-d/' 
> "${HOME}/group.mkgroup_l_d" > /etc/gr
> oup \
>    && chmod --silent --reference=/etc/passwd /etc/group
> -  rm -f ${HOME}/group.mkgroup_l_d
> +  rm -f "${HOME}/group.mkgroup_l_d"
>    ;;
>  esac
> 

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