On Wed, Oct 23, 2002 at 11:47:27AM +0200, Bjoern Kahl AG Resy wrote: > > > On Wed, Oct 23, 2002 at 11:15:34AM +0200, Thomas Baker wrote: > > > > ..even though "echo $HOME" in a Bash window confirms that > > > > $HOME is "/cygdrive/e". > > > > > > AFAIK cygwin takes the home directory from /etc/passwd. > > > > Oho, indeed it does, and "/home/tbaker" doesn't (yet) exist! > > > > Any reason I shouldn't just "vi /etc/passwd" to reset HOME to > > "/cygdrive/e"? > > Hmm. hacking araound in passwd is not the best thing to do. > Next time you run "mkpasswd" your changes may get lost.
Sounds wise... > I think its better to use mount the map /home/tbaker to the > place your files life. > > If you have multiple accouts. its even better to map /home to a > place, where all user have a directory with there username. Yikes... just when I was getting used to ntsec/permissions, yet another WIN32/Unix oddity to contend with...! Looks like it might be easier just to spell out "/cygdrive/e" in my .procmailrc instead of using the $HOME variable there...?? Tom -- Dr. Thomas Baker [EMAIL PROTECTED] Institutszentrum Schloss Birlinghoven mobile +49-171-408-5784 Fraunhofer-Gesellschaft work +49-30-8109-9027 53754 Sankt Augustin, Germany fax +49-2241-144-2352 -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Bug reporting: http://cygwin.com/bugs.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/
