From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 9397 invoked by alias); 2 Aug 2012 21:55:12 -0000 Received: (qmail 9389 invoked by uid 22791); 2 Aug 2012 21:55:11 -0000 X-SWARE-Spam-Status: No, hits=-3.1 required=5.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_00,KHOP_THREADED,SPF_HELO_PASS,T_RP_MATCHES_RCVD X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Received: from plane.gmane.org (HELO plane.gmane.org) (80.91.229.3) by sourceware.org (qpsmtpd/0.43rc1) with ESMTP; Thu, 02 Aug 2012 21:54:58 +0000 Received: from list by plane.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1Sx3M8-0001Mf-Bj for cygwin@cygwin.com; Thu, 02 Aug 2012 23:54:56 +0200 Received: from 5520-maca-inet1-outside.broadcom.com ([216.31.211.11]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Thu, 02 Aug 2012 23:54:56 +0200 Received: from Andrew by 5520-maca-inet1-outside.broadcom.com with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Thu, 02 Aug 2012 23:54:56 +0200 To: cygwin@cygwin.com From: Andrew DeFaria Subject: Re: HOME directory has somehow been overridden Date: Thu, 02 Aug 2012 22:10:00 -0000 Message-ID: References: <198624923.20120803012834@mtu-net.ru> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; rv:14.0) Gecko/20120713 Thunderbird/14.0 In-Reply-To: <198624923.20120803012834@mtu-net.ru> X-IsSubscribed: yes 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 X-SW-Source: 2012-08/txt/msg00073.txt.bz2 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. -- Andrew DeFaria If all the world is a stage, where is the audience sitting? -- 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