--- Max Bowsher <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Original Message From: "Tianming Kong" > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > I'm using cygwin v1.3.18 under Windows XP > > Professional. Unfortunately bash 2.05b-8 does not > > exectute my startup script ~/.bashrc > > > > I defined environement variable HOME as "d:\" > using > > windows control panel. I also copy my .bashrc file > to > > cygwin / directory. > > Why / ? Bash certainly doesn't look there. I suggest > that you make sure that > HOME in the environment and your home dir in > /etc/passwd are consistent, and > that .bashrc is located in that directory. > > Max. >
I remember reading from some previous email, saying that if bash cannot find HOME environment variables from everywhere else (like Windows Environment variables, /etc/profile, /etc/passwd, etc.), then it will try /. I didn't set home dir in /etc/passwd -- actually I didn't set any user entry there. Do you think this caused the problem? Previously when I was using an older version cygwin 1.3.10 and bash 2.05a(3), it worked perfectly fine. -Tim __________________________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Mail Plus - Powerful. Affordable. Sign up now. http://mailplus.yahoo.com -- 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/