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 From: Benoit Rochefort MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Message-ID: <15456.20660.703738.929461@montreal.crt.umontreal.ca> Date: Tue, 5 Feb 2002 16:37:56 -0500 (EST) To: "Michael A Chase" Cc: "Benoit Rochefort" , "Cygwin@Cygwin. Com" Subject: Re: $HOME Directory Relocation In-Reply-To: <054201c1ae8b$c750e820$0d00a8c0@mchasecompaq> References: <15456.19079.804940.878644@montreal.crt.umontreal.ca> <054201c1ae8b$c750e820$0d00a8c0@mchasecompaq> X-Mailer: VM 6.72 under 21.1 (patch 8) "Bryce Canyon" XEmacs Lucid X-Face: C!5Mk_!qB]35}VpD|H>GN/@fk%~7:*/x8&~\]|r|)/zV?rJ){uX4Nh`a$L/z__Kx4Gt!mDU 3kZlj)F2]Ds$?l';SO9]v^|[i2nY`pZ+mu+HT%5ITkuP#e]@8F4@Hc.=]oN1+d\M@Rl>-$C?h$yntf -JVx)3L2}VzG.!bQEy]~I_3fup`HtZ^t/Iz.|Vh$~o`^g\ Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-MIME-Autoconverted: from quoted-printable to 8bit by delorie.com id g15LcL212635 Michael A Chase writes: | ----- 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. That's exactly why I keep one "general" shortcut to cygwin and many "specific" special shortcuts for "special" users (that's almost for testing purpose and to be able to "emulate" another user uses that I have control over; many of them have SAMBA mounted file system homes and by configuring SAMBA correctly, I may read/write in there with correct permissions/uid/gid). You can also change the line that sets HOME in my /etc/profile to the following to get more flexibility: : ${HOME=:"/home/$USER"} | | -- | 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/ | | -- *º¤., ¸¸,.¤º*¨¨¨*¤ Benoit Rochefort *º¤., ¸¸,.¤º*¨¨¨*¤ -- 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/