From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 18851 invoked by alias); 11 Oct 2014 21:38:33 -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 18836 invoked by uid 89); 11 Oct 2014 21:38:32 -0000 Authentication-Results: sourceware.org; auth=none X-Virus-Found: No X-Spam-SWARE-Status: No, score=-1.3 required=5.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_00,T_RP_MATCHES_RCVD autolearn=ham version=3.3.2 X-HELO: Ishtar.hs.tlinx.org Received: from ishtar.tlinx.org (HELO Ishtar.hs.tlinx.org) (173.164.175.65) by sourceware.org (qpsmtpd/0.93/v0.84-503-g423c35a) with (AES256-GCM-SHA384 encrypted) ESMTPS; Sat, 11 Oct 2014 21:38:31 +0000 Received: from [192.168.4.12] (Athenae [192.168.4.12]) by Ishtar.hs.tlinx.org (8.14.7/8.14.4/SuSE Linux 0.8) with ESMTP id s9BLbUUO014494 for ; Sat, 11 Oct 2014 14:37:33 -0700 Message-ID: <5439A31A.30909@tlinx.org> Date: Sat, 11 Oct 2014 21:38:00 -0000 From: Linda Walsh User-Agent: Thunderbird MIME-Version: 1.0 To: cygwin@cygwin.com Subject: Re: what path to use that is not DOS?? References: <543596B3.1020705@tlinx.org> <54359A6C.4030204@redhat.com> In-Reply-To: <54359A6C.4030204@redhat.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-IsSubscribed: yes X-SW-Source: 2014-10/txt/msg00131.txt.bz2 Eric Blake wrote: > On 10/08/2014 01:55 PM, Linda Walsh wrote: >> I get this message the 1st time logging in via 'rlogin': >> >> MS-DOS style path detected: >> /Windows/System32/cygwin/usr/spool/mail/Bliss/law >> Preferred POSIX equivalent is: >> /Windows/System32/cygwin/usr/spool/mail/Bliss/law > > Could any prefix of that path be a symlink with questionable contents? Cygwin can't use any of the normal methods to find my home and because USERNAME isn't set it tries 'USER'. So for a mail-spool dir it looks for /usr/spool/mail/ The backslash is in the USER var. I would say this is a result of logind corrupting the environment and losing all of windows's expected environment. -- 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