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 Message-ID: <40BDDAD7.4070001@protek.ru> Date: Wed, 02 Jun 2004 17:49:11 +0400 From: Eugene Kotlyarov Organization: protek User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 0.6 (Windows/20040502) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: cygwin@cygwin.com Subject: Re: PATH and HOME in cygwin References: In-Reply-To: X-Enigmail-Version: 0.83.6.0 X-Enigmail-Supports: pgp-inline, pgp-mime Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-IsSubscribed: yes Hello David Fay wrote: > I am trying to set my PATH and HOME in cygwin. Under the /etc/profile file it > says to change the bashrc.bash file and I have amended this but still no > change. I also see there is a .bash_profile file in both > the /etc/defaults/etc/skel and /etc/skel. I originally thought that this is the > file I would amend but I expected this to be in my home directory. Any > suggestions? Processing of bash startup files is rather complicated. It depends on how it was called and with what options. You should view man or info pages for bash, section about startup files. -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/