X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Message-ID: <44F46D3B.8050800@cygwin.com> Date: Tue, 29 Aug 2006 12:37:15 -0400 From: "Larry Hall (Cygwin)" Reply-To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.8.0.5) Gecko/20060727 Fedora/1.5.0.5-1.fc4.remi Thunderbird/1.5.0.5 Mnenhy/0.7.4.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Subject: Re: Cygwin installing into wrong directory References: <035f01c6cb87$fdeb2f30$a501a8c0 AT CAM DOT ARTIMI DOT COM> In-Reply-To: <035f01c6cb87$fdeb2f30$a501a8c0@CAM.ARTIMI.COM> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit 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 Dave Korn wrote: > On 29 August 2006 16:09, Larry Hall (Cygwin) wrote: > >> Chuck wrote: > >>> [ ... ] Then I noticed that it created my user home directory in >>> "c:\documents and settings\userid". I wanted it in "c:\cygwin\home" >>> where it was before. What happened and how can I move it. I do NOT want >>> it cluttering up "documents and settings". > >> [ ... ] If you must, you can also set HOME in your >> Windows environment to the directory you want. When Cygwin starts, >> it will use this value to override all others set. > > Isn't the probably the underlying reason why the home dirs were created in > documents and settings in the first place, i.e. does the machine already have > HOME set in its environment variables? Not necessarily. Windows typically sets HOMEDIRVE and HOMEPATH but not HOME. The doc-o-settings path is typically the same as these variables but can also come from the domain server. In environments with domains, the home directory is set by the domain and, I believe, the HOMEDRIVE and HOMEPATH get set to the domain's designation on login. -- Larry Hall http://www.rfk.com RFK Partners, Inc. (508) 893-9779 - RFK Office 216 Dalton Rd. (508) 893-9889 - FAX Holliston, MA 01746 -- 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/