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Re: start up directory
- From: "Gerrit P. Haase" <gp at familiehaase dot de>
- To: "Rob" <relaxedrob at optushome dot com dot au>
- Cc: "Cygwin" <cygwin at cygwin dot com>
- Date: Sat, 12 Jan 2002 00:44:20 +0100
- Subject: Re: start up directory
- Organization: Esse keine toten Tiere
- References: <PKEEKEEIHKANEHFMEKENGEADCNAA.relaxedrob@optushome.com.au>
- Reply-to: "Gerrit P. Haase @ cygwin" <cygwin at cygwin dot com>
Rob,
Am 2002-01-12 um 00:18 schriebst du:
>> How do I change my start up directory?
> I got the following response:
>> edit your entry in /etc/passwd. It lists your home directory.
1. no need to edit the /etc/passwd file, create one with `mkpasswd'.
2. it depends how you start the bash shell (at least for me), if I run
x:\cygwin\bin\rxvt.exe --options -e bash ... directly
from a shortcut the shell opens in the directory where the shortcut
is stored (desktop for me), if I run the same command from a batch file
which is stored at the Cygwin root it works correct and the bash opens in
my home dir as it is defined it in /etc/passwd.
> However, I don't understand how my system is working at the moment. This is
> what I see at startup when do a "pwd":
> Robert Mark Bram@ROB ~
You should also avoid spaces in your user/pathname!
> $ pwd
> /cygdrive/c/PROGRA~1/RATIONAL/RATION~1/NUTCROOT
> Robert Mark Bram@ROB ~
> $
> And this is the contents of my /etc/passwd:
> Robert Mark Bram::500:544::/home/Robert Mark Bram:/bin/bash
Don't use spaces in your username.
> It is such a strange start up directory - a folder for Rational Rose. When I
> check my environment variables I find these two:
> NUTCROOT=C:\PROGRA~1\RATIONAL\RATION~1\NUTCROOT
> TERM=nutc
> Does anyone know how I should fix this without changing my environment
> variables?
More information probably in the FAQ and the docu, links at the bottom.
Gerrit
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