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Re: Cygwin/Procmail stops working after setup.exe upgrade


 Hallo !

On Wed, 23 Oct 2002, Thomas Baker wrote:
> On Wed, Oct 23, 2002 at 11:20:59AM +0200, Olaf Foellinger 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.

 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.


 Hope that helps

   Bjoern Kahl

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