From: Andrew DeFaria <Andrew@DeFaria.com>
To: cygwin@cygwin.com
Subject: Re: HOME directory has somehow been overridden
Date: Thu, 02 Aug 2012 22:10:00 -0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <jvesv7$dl1$1@dough.gmane.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <198624923.20120803012834@mtu-net.ru>
On 8/2/2012 2:28 PM, Andrey Repin wrote:
> Greetings, Soumya Roy!
>
>> Just to give the last few lines of my /etc/passwd file:-
>> /home/SUPPORT_388945a0:/bin/bash
>> VALNT:unused:1003:513:U-SMEI-EC058E66\VALNT,S-1-5-21-1614895754-178822364\
>> 8-725345543-1003:/home/VALNT:/bin/bash
> My only question: Why you're doing this?
> Isn't your profile directory is a logical location for your $HOME?
> Other than that, check all settings that may affect it.
> Environment variable, as suggested, being one of them.
My logical location for my $HOME is usually off on some filter, where
it's the $HOME for Windows and the $HOME for Unix/Linux. I could care
less about [C:\Documents and Settings|C:\Users]\$USERNAME.
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2012-08-02 21:55 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2012-08-02 17:30 Soumya Roy
2012-08-02 17:33 ` Earnie Boyd
2012-08-02 18:08 ` Soumya Roy
2012-08-02 21:52 ` Andrey Repin
2012-08-02 22:10 ` Andrew DeFaria [this message]
2012-08-03 16:22 ` Soumya Roy
2012-08-07 8:35 ` Andrey Repin
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