X-Recipient: archive-cygwin AT delorie DOT com X-SWARE-Spam-Status: No, hits=-1.9 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00,RCVD_IN_DNSWL_NONE,SPF_HELO_PASS X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Message-ID: <20100331133700.260816ngtqed0s80@webmail.df.eu> Date: Wed, 31 Mar 2010 13:37:00 +0200 From: Markus Hoenicka To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Subject: Re: Changing the home directory ($HOME) References: In-Reply-To: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; DelSp="Yes"; format="flowed" Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit User-Agent: domainFACTORY X-Df-Sender: 472582 X-IsSubscribed: yes Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help AT cygwin DOT com; run by ezmlm List-Id: List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner AT cygwin DOT com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Phil Couling was heard to say: > I have cygwin pre installed on a pc I'm using. I'd like to change the > home directory ($HOME) but I'm having some trouble finding where it's > been set. Currently it points to a drive letter q: . I'd much prefer > to point it at /home/username. /etc/profile says: # Here is how HOME is set, in order of priority, when starting from Windows # 1) From existing HOME in the Windows environment, translated to a Posix path # 2) from /etc/passwd, if there is an entry with a non empty directory field # 3) from HOMEDRIVE/HOMEPATH # 4) / (root) I've used #1. HTH Markus -- Markus Hoenicka http://www.mhoenicka.de AQ score 38 -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple