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Re: Aliases no longer defined?
- From: "Pierre A. Humblet" <pierre dot humblet at ieee dot org>
- To: cygwin at cygwin dot com
- Date: Mon, 31 Mar 2003 20:28:00 -0500
- Subject: Re: Aliases no longer defined?
- References: <20030331175916.000005c8.pd@world.std.com> <b6ai5k$7lv$2@main.gmane.org> <20030331201928.00001bd5.pd@world.std.com>
On Mon, Mar 31, 2003 at 08:19:28PM -0500, Peter Davis wrote:
> On Mon, 31 Mar 2003 18:15:13 -0500
> Rolf Campbell <rcampbell at tropicnetworks dot com> wrote:
>
> > Peter Davis wrote:
> > > I recently switched from Windows NT4 and Windows 2000 to Windows XP. I
> > > installed cygwin freshly on both systems. Now I'm noticing that on both
> > > systems, .bashrc seems to be completely ignored. I haven't changed this
> > > file at all, but suddenly the aliases I define and export are not
> > > defined when I try to type them at the shell prompt.
> > >
> > > If I do
> > >
> > > source ~/.bashrc
> > >
> > > it works without error, but the aliases are *still* not defined. I
> > > noticed by running 'cygcheck -s' that the new systems seem to have DLL
> > > build 1.3.22 (3/18/2003), while the older ones were running build 1.3.20
> > > (2/18/2003). However, nothing else has changed. This used to work, but
> > > now doesn't.
> > >
> > > Any clues?
> > >
> > > Thanks,
> > >
> > > -pd
> >
> > What does your /etc/passwd look like?
>
>
> It's got a bunch of entries: SYSTEM, Administrators, Administrator, Guest, pdavis, etc.
>
> What should I be looking for?
Are you sure that your HOME directory is where you think it is?
In order of priority it is set from
- HOME from the Windows environment
- /etc/passwd (that's probably why you were asked)
- HOMEDRIVE/HOMEPATH
- /
Pierre
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