Re: Aliases no longer defined?

[Peter Davis <pd at world dot std dot com>]

On Tue, Apr 01, 2003 at 01:11:48PM -0500, Igor Pechtchanski wrote:
> On Tue, 1 Apr 2003 pd at world dot std dot com wrote:
> 
> > On Tue, Apr 01, 2003 at 12:17:12PM -0500, Igor Pechtchanski wrote:
> > > On Tue, 1 Apr 2003, Rolf Campbell wrote:
> > >
> > > > Igor Pechtchanski wrote:
> > > > > On Tue, 1 Apr 2003, Rolf Campbell wrote:
> > > > >
> > > > >
> > > > >>Peter Davis wrote:
> > > > >>
> > > > >>>Ok.  There ain't much worth cracking my system for anyway.  Here's the
> > > > >>>/etc/passwd file from one machine below.
> > > > >>>
> > > > >>>Thanks for any help with this!
> > > > >>>
> > > > >>>-pd
> > > > >>>
> >             ...
> > > > >>
> > > > >>Well, you seem to have 3 accounts, one with a space in it, and one with
> > > > >>different case.  Do you really have 3 different accounts?
> > > > >
> > > > > Rolf,
> > > > >
> > > > > And what does this have to do with aliases not being exported?  FWIW, the
> > > > > UIDs on all 3 accounts are different...
> > > > >
> > > > Well, if he *thinks* he's logging on as 'pdavis', but is really logging
> > > > on as 'Pdavis', then bash might be using the 'wrong' home dir.
> > >
> > > Ah.  I didn't see that...  Devious. :-)
> > >
> > > > Peter,
> > > > what happens if you ". /home/pdavis/.bashrc" (without using ~)
> > >
> > > Peter,
> > >
> > > Also, what is the output of "echo ~" and "cd ~ && /bin/pwd"?
> >
> > $ echo ~
> > /cygdrive/c/home
> >
> > $ cd ~ && /bin/pwd
> > /cygdrive/c/home
> >
> > Does that help?
> >
> > Thanks,
> > -pd
> 
> Yes, it does.  Your home directory is not correct.  Now you have to find
> out why.

What should it be?  I explicitly set HOME to be C:\home in Windows,
for the benefit of emacs, etc.  I've done this for years, so it seems
to be unrelated to the current problem.  In fact, I just checked, and
the results of these commands are the same on my old Win2000 machine,
where .bashrc worked.


>  I think Rolf may have something there...
> 	Igor
> P.S. Did you ever attach the output of "cygcheck -svr"?

Not yet, but I will now.  Thanks very much for your help in
trouble-shooting this.


-pd


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