Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@sourceware.cygnus.com; run by ezmlm List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@sources.redhat.com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin@sources.redhat.com From: mlg@helpy.de (Guido Erlinger) Organization: http://www.helpy.de To: cygwin@sourceware.cygnus.com Date: Tue, 18 Jul 2000 13:51:18 +0200 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-transfer-encoding: 7BIT Subject: RE: Where to put profile files? Reply-to: mlg@helpy.de (Guido Erlinger) Message-ID: <397460D6.9624.12BEED1@localhost> In-reply-to: X-mailer: Pegasus Mail for Win32 (v3.12c) On 18 Jul 2000, at 11:23, Mike Little wrote: > > If you have installed via the latest GUI installer the > /etc/profile file tries to be more sensible about it, and > will in fact create a home directory for you if $HOME is not defined. > ... I have a space in the Username "xxxxx yyyyy" (Win98 SE): ==> The GUI installer created a directory "/home/xxxxx". ==> But $HOME was set to "/home/xxxxx yyyyy" In this case bash looks in "/" for the ".bash_login". If I set HOME to "/home/xxxxx" in cygwin.bat. Than it works and bash looks in "/home/xxxxx". Guido -- Want to unsubscribe from this list? Send a message to cygwin-unsubscribe@sourceware.cygnus.com