Hi Rob -- I had a similar problem. It turns out some windows program had defined $HOME, and this supersedes cygwin's $HOME.
On win2k I removed it from: my computer -> properties -> advanced -> environment variables -> user defined variables --ra At 06:44 PM 1/11/2002, you wrote: >Rob, > >Am 2002-01-12 um 00:18 schriebst du: > > >> How do I change my start up directory? > > > I got the following response: > > >> edit your entry in /etc/passwd. It lists your home directory. > >1. no need to edit the /etc/passwd file, create one with `mkpasswd'. > >2. it depends how you start the bash shell (at least for me), if I run > x:\cygwin\bin\rxvt.exe --options -e bash ... directly >from a shortcut the shell opens in the directory where the shortcut >is stored (desktop for me), if I run the same command from a batch file >which is stored at the Cygwin root it works correct and the bash opens in >my home dir as it is defined it in /etc/passwd. > > > > However, I don't understand how my system is working at the moment. This is > > what I see at startup when do a "pwd": > > > Robert Mark Bram@ROB ~ > >You should also avoid spaces in your user/pathname! > > > $ pwd > > /cygdrive/c/PROGRA~1/RATIONAL/RATION~1/NUTCROOT > > > Robert Mark Bram@ROB ~ > > $ > > > And this is the contents of my /etc/passwd: > > Robert Mark Bram::500:544::/home/Robert Mark Bram:/bin/bash > >Don't use spaces in your username. > > > It is such a strange start up directory - a folder for Rational Rose. > When I > > check my environment variables I find these two: > > > NUTCROOT=C:\PROGRA~1\RATIONAL\RATION~1\NUTCROOT > > > TERM=nutc > > > Does anyone know how I should fix this without changing my environment > > variables? > >More information probably in the FAQ and the docu, links at the bottom. > >Gerrit >-- >=^..^= mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > > >-- >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/ -- 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/