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Date: Tue, 20 Sep 2005 08:48:41 -0400
From: Poor Yorick <com DOT cygwin DOT cygwin AT pooryorick DOT com>
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Subject: Re: bash not running bash_profile or bashrc
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Eric Blake wrote:

>>gets fired up with startxwin.bat correctly runs .bash_profile.  However, 
>>if I start another xterm from that xterm, neither .bash_profile nor 
>>.bash_rc is run.  PS1 gets reset to "$".  The second xterm also loses 
>>tab-completion functionality.  I do, however, in the second xterm, get 
>>the "Your group is currently "mkpasswd" message.
>>
>>Because it might be related, I'll describe a second problem. The command
> 
> 
> Yep, it was related - until you have run mkpasswd, /etc/passwd is
> unpopulated, so cygwin doesn't know any better than to set your
> home directory to:
> 
> 
>>HOME = `/cygdrive/n'
> 
> 

Thanks for the help.  My bash_profile and bashrc are both located in /cygdrive/n, so even with username "mkpasswd", they should still fire up according to normal bash procedures, right?


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