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Date: Wed, 19 Jan 2005 22:15:39 -0500 (EST)
From: Igor Pechtchanski <pechtcha AT cs DOT nyu DOT edu>
Reply-To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com
To: "Green, Keith" <KGreen AT ida DOT org>
cc: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com
Subject: Re: home directory
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On Wed, 19 Jan 2005, Green, Keith wrote:

> New problem. Never had this one before.
> In Windows, I define the HOME variable to C:\etc.
>
> However, my cygwin.bat file reads
>    @echo off
>    set HOME=/home/kgreen     (also tried set HOME=H:\cygwin\home\kgreen )
>    H:
>    chdir H:\cygwin\bin
>    bash --login -i
>
> and the pertinent line from /etc/passwd reads:
>
> kgreen:unused_by_nt/2000/xp:12447:10545:kgreen,U-BBB\kgreen,S-1-5-21-748114381-82326301-405542714-2447:/home/kgreen:/bin/bash
>
> BUT ... when I double click on icon (cygwin.bat), it keeps bringing me
> up in /usr/bin.
> I've tried disabling ~/.bashrc and ~/.bash_login (just in case).  Same
> thing.
> The odd thing is that in the cygwin.bat file, regardless of how I set it
> (with POSIX or DOS path name), when the cygwin window comes up and I
> type echo $HOME, it has the right value in it.  That is, $HOME says
> /home/kgreen.
> Also, when I put a ~/.bashrc and ~/.bash_login inside /home/kgreen, it
> uses them!  So it's getting there somehow ... and then deciding on its
> own that it would rather be in /usr/bin!

You could try to start bash with "--login -i -v", which should show the
commands that are executed, and possibly explain why the directory is
changed to /usr/bin.
HTH,
	Igor
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