Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin@cygwin.com Date: Wed, 23 Oct 2002 11:53:43 +0200 From: Thomas Baker To: Bjoern Kahl AG Resy Cc: cygwin@cygwin.com Subject: Re: Cygwin/Procmail stops working after setup.exe upgrade Message-ID: <20021023095343.GA568@LEPIDUS> Mail-Followup-To: Thomas Baker , Bjoern Kahl AG Resy , cygwin@cygwin.com References: <20021023093916.GA2316@LEPIDUS> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.4i On Wed, Oct 23, 2002 at 11:47:27AM +0200, Bjoern Kahl AG Resy wrote: > > > On Wed, Oct 23, 2002 at 11:15:34AM +0200, Thomas Baker wrote: > > > > ..even though "echo $HOME" in a Bash window confirms that > > > > $HOME is "/cygdrive/e". > > > > > > AFAIK cygwin takes the home directory from /etc/passwd. > > > > Oho, indeed it does, and "/home/tbaker" doesn't (yet) exist! > > > > Any reason I shouldn't just "vi /etc/passwd" to reset HOME to > > "/cygdrive/e"? > > Hmm. hacking araound in passwd is not the best thing to do. > Next time you run "mkpasswd" your changes may get lost. Sounds wise... > I think its better to use mount the map /home/tbaker to the > place your files life. > > If you have multiple accouts. its even better to map /home to a > place, where all user have a directory with there username. Yikes... just when I was getting used to ntsec/permissions, yet another WIN32/Unix oddity to contend with...! Looks like it might be easier just to spell out "/cygdrive/e" in my .procmailrc instead of using the $HOME variable there...?? Tom -- Dr. Thomas Baker Thomas.Baker@bi.fhg.de Institutszentrum Schloss Birlinghoven mobile +49-171-408-5784 Fraunhofer-Gesellschaft work +49-30-8109-9027 53754 Sankt Augustin, Germany fax +49-2241-144-2352 -- 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/