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Date: Fri, 23 Oct 2009 09:33:08 -0400
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On 10/23/2009 08:12 AM, Larry W. Virden wrote:
>
> Today in following up some helpful suggestions by members of this
> mailing  list I ran into some additional setup issues.
>
> For instance, right now, when I open a bash window, I find an
> environment  where $HOME is set to
> /cygdrive/c/Documents and Settings/lvirden
>
> However, if I take a look at ~lvirden, I see that is mapped to
> /home/lwv27  - which doesn't exist.

Sounds like at least one postinstall script didn't run correctly and that
you've done some "fiddling" to try to fix things up.  I can say this much:

   1. At least some postinstall scripts didn't run properly.  If they had,
     you should have /home/lvirden and $HOME would point to that.

   2. ~ comes from '/etc/passwd' and it would seem that this file exists and
      you've edited it to point to '/home/lwv27'.

Off the top of my head, I can't reconcile that and $HOME pointing to something
different.  So take a look around these areas and also look at the 
resolution rules
spelled out in '/etc/profile' to see if that helps you spot the issue.

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<http://cygwin.com/problems.html>

> Is there a service or something that maps "/home" to the $HOME settings?
> In fact, I think I'd rather $HOME be set to /home/whatever , to eliminate
> those embedded spaces.
>
> Also, when I run cygrunsrv -Q cron I see a message saying that no such
> service is running. When I try to run cygrunsrv --start cron
>
> I get an error saying that the specified service does not exist as an
> installed service. I know the admin setting this up for me on my XP desktop
> ran the setup.exe command to install the package containing cron. Perhaps
> there is some other step I need to let him know about that has to be done
> after the install? Is there some place I can point him to help him get
> things setup?

You have to run 'cron-config'.

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