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RE: strange install problems
- From: Erik Weibust <eweibust at yahoo dot com>
- To: Cygwin List <cygwin at cygwin dot com>, Dave Korn <dk at artimi dot com>
- Date: Thu, 1 Apr 2004 12:43:02 -0800 (PST)
- Subject: RE: strange install problems
FYI. Problem solved!
Our NT_Services group here changed some "start-up"
scripts which were setting $HOMEDRIVE. I just had to
re-map that drive and cygwin started up correctly.
I have a few questions.
1. $HOMEDRIVE for me is on a network share is this
going to be a problem?
2. Shouldn't cygwin use something like $My_Documents
as it's home? This is mostly on a local drive for all
windows installs.
3. Does cygwin not build a /home/$USERNAME dir/path
as part of it's install? I did a complete install and
expected it. Before I uninstalled my previous cygwin
install (which was installed a year ago) I did have a
/home/$USER dir and that is what I backed up.
4. If the answer to number 3 is No. Can I just
create a /home/$USER and copy my old /home/user there?
Thanks...
--- Larry Hall <cygwin-lh@cygwin.com> wrote:
> At 10:33 AM 4/1/2004, you wrote:
>
> >> -----Original Message-----
> >> From: Erik Weibust
> >> Sent: 01 April 2004 16:28
> >
> >
> >> Dave,
> >>
> >> I'm very familiar with setting Env vars in
> windows. I
> >> checked that. Nothing there. Then I opened a
> cmd
> >> prompt and ran set | more and found this:
> >>
> >> HOMEDRIVE=H:
> >> HOMEPATH=\
> >> HOMESHARE=\\dalfss02\erikweibust$
> >>
> >> Those vars aren't visible through the My Computer
> gui
> >> view? Any idea where they are being set or how
> to
> >> change them?
> >
> >
> >Hmm... you'll be interested by this thread in the
> ml-archive:
> >
>
>http://sources.redhat.com/ml/cygwin/2004-03/msg01280.html
> >
> >
> >I'm not sure where it's coming from. Are you
> running Novell Netware?
>
>
> These settings come directly from Windows. Erik is
> apparently picking up
> H as his home drive as a result of settings on his
> domain.
>
>
>
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