From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 49369 invoked by alias); 9 Sep 2017 05:11:44 -0000 Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Id: List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com Received: (qmail 49360 invoked by uid 89); 9 Sep 2017 05:11:43 -0000 Authentication-Results: sourceware.org; auth=none X-Virus-Found: No X-Spam-SWARE-Status: No, score=3.0 required=5.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_50,FREEMAIL_FROM,KAM_COUK,RCVD_IN_DNSWL_NONE,RCVD_IN_SORBS_SPAM,SPF_PASS autolearn=no version=3.3.2 spammy=H*MI:yahoo, Hx-languages-length:654, H*RU:sk:sonic30, HX-HELO:sk:sonic30 X-HELO: sonic303-19.consmr.mail.ir2.yahoo.com Received: from sonic303-19.consmr.mail.ir2.yahoo.com (HELO sonic303-19.consmr.mail.ir2.yahoo.com) (77.238.178.200) by sourceware.org (qpsmtpd/0.93/v0.84-503-g423c35a) with ESMTP; Sat, 09 Sep 2017 05:11:42 +0000 Received: from sonic.gate.mail.ne1.yahoo.com by sonic303.consmr.mail.ir2.yahoo.com with HTTP; Sat, 9 Sep 2017 05:11:40 +0000 Received: from [127.0.0.1] by smtp101.mail.ir2.yahoo.com with NNFMP; 09 Sep 2017 05:06:18 -0000 Message-ID: <190592.83283.bm@smtp101.mail.ir2.yahoo.com> X-Yahoo-SMTP: g8zEfr2swBBGx8tLQhnvE9ArcfYX From: "Ben Stover via cygwin" Reply-To: "Ben Stover" To: "Cygwin MailList" Date: Sat, 09 Sep 2017 05:11:00 -0000 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: How to specify the user directory OUTSIDE of Cygwin (installation folder)? X-IsSubscribed: yes X-SW-Source: 2017-09/txt/msg00107.txt.bz2 By default the user folder of Cygwin (under Win7) is in a subdirectory \home\ How can I put it into a separate directory OUTSIDE of Cygwin? Example: I installed Cygwin in D:\tools\cygwin\v2\ and want to put my (resp. all) home directories into D:\tools\cygwin\myhome\ If possible I would like to specify my new home directory not as absolute but as relative path. I would prefer a customization somwhow in "Cygwin.bat" like: set cygwinhome=..\myhome Mind the double dots standing for "go up one level". How can I achieve this? Ben . -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple