Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@cygwin.com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin@cygwin.com Message-ID: <054201c1ae8b$c750e820$0d00a8c0@mchasecompaq> From: "Michael A Chase" To: "Benoit Rochefort" Cc: "Cygwin@Cygwin. Com" References: <15456.19079.804940.878644@montreal.crt.umontreal.ca> Subject: Re: $HOME Directory Relocation Date: Tue, 5 Feb 2002 13:25:37 -0800 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 6.00.2600.0000 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2600.0000 ----- Original Message ----- From: "Benoit Rochefort" To: "Laurence F. Wood" Cc: "Cygwin@Cygwin. Com" Sent: Tuesday, February 05, 2002 13:11 Subject: Re: $HOME Directory Relocation > Since no login occurs, place it in your batch file calling bash, or in > /etc/profile like I do. Here is my /etc/profile that correct many such > environment variable problems I found over the time: The problem with setting HOME to a fixed value in cygwin.bat or /etc/profile is that limits your cygwin installation to a single user. That's why the default /etc/profile allows $HOME to be passed through from the user's Windows environment. -- Mac :}) ** I normally forward private questions to the appropriate mail list. ** Ask Smarter: http://www.tuxedo.org/~esr/faqs/smart-questions.htm Give a hobbit a fish and he eats fish for a day. Give a hobbit a ring and he eats fish for an age. -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Bug reporting: http://cygwin.com/bugs.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/