home directory not created in cygwin installation

[Ji-Wei Wu]

My computer runs Windows 2000 Professional.  I verified $USER is correct 
from cygwin but $HOME was not set during installation (I don't know 
why).  I also noticed that the file /etc/profile does not seem to have the 
lines to set HOME (comparing to other people's profile).  Now I have to set 
HOME every time I start a cygwin shell.  Is there a way I can run the 
profile to set HOME permanently after installation? Thanks.

At 06:32 PM 9/30/2003 -0400, you wrote:
>On Tue, 30 Sep 2003, Ji-Wei Wu wrote:
>
> > I downloaded and installed the latest cygwin today on my computer.  I
> > followed all defaults during installation (in c:\cygwin).  After that, I
> > started a cygwin bash shell but found that it did not start in the
> > /home/$USER directory ($USER means the user name I use to log onto my
> > computer).  The actual directory is /sygdrive/c, which means the c: drive
> > on my computer.  What went wrong in my installation and can anyone help me?
> >
> > Thanks.
>
>At a guess, your HOME is set incorrectly in Windows.
>Please read and follow the Cygwin problem reporting guidelines at
><http://cygwin.com/problems.html>.  This will provide enough information
>to venture a better guess or to find a solution for your problem.
>         Igor
>--
>                                 http://cs.nyu.edu/~pechtcha/
>       |\      _,,,---,,_                pechtcha@cs.nyu.edu
>ZZZzz /,`.-'`'    -.  ;-;;,_            igor@watson.ibm.com
>      |,4-  ) )-,_. ,\ (  `'-'           Igor Pechtchanski, Ph.D.
>     '---''(_/--'  `-'\_) fL     a.k.a JaguaR-R-R-r-r-r-.-.-.  Meow!
>
>"I have since come to realize that being between your mentor and his route
>to the bathroom is a major career booster."  -- Patrick Naughton


--
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/