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Date: Tue, 1 Apr 2003 13:09:16 -0500
From: pd AT world DOT std DOT com
To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com
Subject: Re: Aliases no longer defined?
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On Tue, Apr 01, 2003 at 12:17:12PM -0500, Igor Pechtchanski wrote:
> On Tue, 1 Apr 2003, Rolf Campbell wrote:
> 
> > Igor Pechtchanski wrote:
> > > On Tue, 1 Apr 2003, Rolf Campbell wrote:
> > >
> > >
> > >>Peter Davis wrote:
> > >>
> > >>>Ok.  There ain't much worth cracking my system for anyway.  Here's the
> > >>>/etc/passwd file from one machine below.
> > >>>
> > >>>Thanks for any help with this!
> > >>>
> > >>>-pd
> > >>>
            ...
> > >>
> > >>Well, you seem to have 3 accounts, one with a space in it, and one with
> > >>different case.  Do you really have 3 different accounts?
> > >
> > > Rolf,
> > >
> > > And what does this have to do with aliases not being exported?  FWIW, the
> > > UIDs on all 3 accounts are different...
> > >
> > Well, if he *thinks* he's logging on as 'pdavis', but is really logging
> > on as 'Pdavis', then bash might be using the 'wrong' home dir.
> 
> Ah.  I didn't see that...  Devious. :-)
> 
> > Peter,
> > what happens if you ". /home/pdavis/.bashrc" (without using ~)
> 
> Peter,
> 
> Also, what is the output of "echo ~" and "cd ~ && /bin/pwd"?

$ echo ~
/cygdrive/c/home

$ cd ~ && /bin/pwd
/cygdrive/c/home


Does that help?

Thanks,

-pd


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