Hi Rob --
I had a similar problem. It turns out some windows program had defined
$HOME, and this supersedes cygwin's $HOME.
On win2k I removed it from:
my computer - properties - advanced - environment variables - user
defined variables
--ra
At 06:44 PM 1/11/2002, you wrote:
Rob,
Am 2002-01-12 um 00:18 schriebst du:
How do I change my start up directory?
I got the following response:
edit your entry in /etc/passwd. It lists your home directory.
1. no need to edit the /etc/passwd file, create one with `mkpasswd'.
2. it depends how you start the bash shell (at least for me), if I run
x:\cygwin\bin\rxvt.exe --options -e bash ... directly
from a shortcut the shell opens in the directory where the shortcut
is stored (desktop for me), if I run the same command from a batch file
which is stored at the Cygwin root it works correct and the bash opens in
my home dir as it is defined it in /etc/passwd.
However, I don't understand how my system is working at the moment. This is
what I see at startup when do a pwd:
Robert Mark Bram@ROB ~
You should also avoid spaces in your user/pathname!
$ pwd
/cygdrive/c/PROGRA~1/RATIONAL/RATION~1/NUTCROOT
Robert Mark Bram@ROB ~
$
And this is the contents of my /etc/passwd:
Robert Mark Bram::500:544::/home/Robert Mark Bram:/bin/bash
Don't use spaces in your username.
It is such a strange start up directory - a folder for Rational Rose.
When I
check my environment variables I find these two:
NUTCROOT=C:\PROGRA~1\RATIONAL\RATION~1\NUTCROOT
TERM=nutc
Does anyone know how I should fix this without changing my environment
variables?
More information probably in the FAQ and the docu, links at the bottom.
Gerrit
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