This is the mail archive of the
cygwin
mailing list for the Cygwin project.
Re: setting $HOME variable
- From: Mark Bohlman <mbohlman at tcicredit dot com>
- To: cygwin at cygwin dot com
- Date: Mon, 08 Nov 2004 15:38:04 -0500
- Subject: Re: setting $HOME variable
- References: <loom.20041108T174554-117@post.gmane.org>
- Reply-to: mNOSPAMPORMOIbohlman at tcicredit dot com
Michael wrote:
Ive been trying to set the home variable.
i want home to be c:\cygwin\home\
ive tried setting this in the .bat files and in .bashrc but it doesnt work.
If i type echo $HOME i get this
/cygdrive/c/Documents and Settings/UserName
Ive read that its in /etc/passwd where it actually looks for the home
directory, but what do you chage? How can i set it so when i start the bash
its starts in the right directory?
Any help will be appreciated!
In /etc/passwd find the entry for your userid and the next to the last
field is your home directory. Change this to be /home/your_user_id_here
where your_user_id_here is your user id. This will set the $HOME
variable to be "/home/your_user_id_here, which is probably what you want
rather than c:\cygwin\home.
If you have the default mounts done and have installed to the default
location of c:\cygwin, then this will be the "preferred" (tm) location.
-- Mark
--
Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple
Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html
Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html
FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/