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Subject: RE: home directory
Date: Thu, 20 Jan 2005 14:10:32 -0500
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BTW, this is an easy enough problem to 'fix'.  I just tell
it to cd /home/kgreen at the end of .bashrc .  That works fine.
But I shouldn't have to do this.

k

> > 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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> 


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