Where to put profile files?

[Mike Little]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Randall Parker [ mailto:randall@nls.net ]
> Sent: Tuesday, July 18, 2000 7:06 AM
> To: cygwin@sourceware.cygnus.com
> Subject: Where to put profile files?
> 
> 
> When I start up Bash from NT it opens in 
>    c:\winnt\profiles\randall\desktop
> 
> So I tried putting .bash_login and .bash_profile in it with 
> just one line:
>  alias dir=ls
> 
> This doesn't work. I tried putting a profile file with the 
> same contents in the etc directory under 
> where I have cygwin installed:
>   j:\prg\cygwin\etc\profile
> 
> That doesn't make any difference either.
> 
> I tried creating an etc directory on the c drive and putting 
> profile in it too:
>    c:\etc\profile
> 
> That doesn't help either.
> 
> So I'm running out of ideas. Anyone know where the Cygwin 
> Bash goes looking for profile, 
> .bash_login, .bash_profile, and .bashrc? 
> 

Try setting $HOME before you run bash. 
(i.e. set it in Control Panel->System->Environment)
I set mine to %SystemRoot%\Profiles\%USERNAME%\home
Which evaluates to C:\WINNT\Profiles\mlit\home.

The last sub-directory I created (the rest by NT). I have my 
.bashrc and .bash_profile files in there (unix line endings)

If you have installed via the latest GUI installer the 
/etc/profile file tries to be more sensible about it, and 
will in fact create a home directory for you if $HOME is not defined.

Hope that helps.

Mike


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