home directory not created in cygwin installation
Monique Y. Herman
spam@bounceswoosh.org
Wed Oct 1 21:36:00 GMT 2003
On Wed, 01 Oct 2003 16:08:39 -0400, Ji-Wei Wu <Ji-Wei.Wu-1@nasa.gov> penned:
> 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.
>
On your windows desktop:
Right-click on "My Computer" and go to properties. Click on "Advanced"
tab. Punch "Environment Variables" button. Create new user variable
HOME with value something like C:\cygwin\home\user where user is the
username you want for your home.
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monique
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