* Chris Carlson (2004-06-02 21:47 +0100) > I understand your frustration, but your experience is not everyone's.
Frustration? > So far, I've installed cygwin on 7 different machines. One Windows 98, > two Windows XP and at least 4 Windows 2000 systems. Of the seven, all > were installed from the Internet, all were done at different points in > Cygwin's development, all were clean installs (no previous version of > Cygwin existed) and NONE of them have an /etc/profile file. This is the reason of your missing path and $HOME. > All have an /etc/profile.d directory. None have gone through the > postinstall scripts without at least one of them hanging. Only > after some time have I gotten man to work. So your experience is absolutely contrary to mine. I still don't see your point. > It is clear the Mr. Fay doesn't understand bash well. He obviously > doesn't know the purpose of /etc/skel. /etc/skel isn't bash related. > He may not understand man. If he's just doing a man command, > there's a lot of information that gets scrolled by. It takes a > dozen or more readings before you understand it all, presuming > you've never used a Unix shell before. The short "files" section at the bottom isn't hard to grasp. Every utility that uses initialisation files has a files section at the bottom of the man page. > I had to set PATH and HOME in my Windows environment to get them to be > set properly in Cygwin. I would think telling Mr. Fay that he needs to > set them in the Windows environment would have been a much more useful > reply. *I* set $HOME "in Windows" (because I want other non-Cygwin applications (BlackAdder, GVim etc) to look for rcfiles there. Mr. Fay doesn't have any problems with his path or $HOME (at least he doesn't mention any). So it's absolutely unneccessary to modify or set these variables. > Suggesting the reading of a book on shells wouldn't be quite > useful either, since Cygwin does things just a little differently. The differences are so minor that a non-expert would hardly notice them. > A pointer to the Cygwin document might have helped. I'm still looking for > it. Anyone able to type "cygwin.com" in to the address field of a browser should be able to find the FAQ and the user guide. Mr. Fay has just one problem: /etc/bashrc isn't read. Why he asks. And my answer was: because it's not a bash file (as you can see at the bottom of the manpage. -- 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/