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Re: rsh , $HOME environment variable
- From: Corinna Vinschen <corinna-cygwin at cygwin dot com>
- To: cygwin at cygwin dot com
- Date: Fri, 19 Aug 2005 21:14:35 +0200
- Subject: Re: rsh , $HOME environment variable
- References: <200508191733.13951.ramon.net@gmx.net>
- Reply-to: cygwin at cygwin dot com
On Aug 19 17:33, Ram?n wrote:
> # rsh -l Administrator MYHOST set | grep HOME
> [...]
> HOME=/
> HOMEDRIVE=C:
> HOMEPATH='\cygwin\home\Administrator'
> [...]
> WHY ?? I need ~ and $HOME correctly declarated !!
I'm moved to tears.
The reason was an incorrect (better: missing) handling of $HOME
in rshd in the Cygwin code building the new environment for the
child process. I've fixed that and uploaded a new inetutils
version 1.3.2-30 which should show up on the mirrors soon.
Corinna
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