[mathew.boorman@au.cmg.com: /etc/profile /etc/passwd and HOME]

[Corinna Vinschen]

On Fri, Oct 26, 2001 at 02:59:44PM -0400, Earnie Boyd wrote:
> Corinna Vinschen wrote:
> > 
> > On Fri, Oct 26, 2001 at 02:39:02PM -0400, Earnie Boyd wrote:
> > > Christopher Faylor wrote:
> > > >
> > > > On Fri, Oct 26, 2001 at 08:01:03PM +0200, Corinna Vinschen wrote:
> > > > >I like that idea.
> > > > >
> > > > >Should we add these lines to the generated profile?
> > > >
> > > > Doesn't bash do this for you automatically, somehow?
> > >
> > > I just checked and yes it does.  However I believe that would only be
> > > for --login.
> > 
> > Oops.  I wasn't aware of that.  I'm to used to tcsh, probably.
> > 
> > What I'm wondering is, why was that a problem for Mathew then???
> > 
> 
> He's not executing cygwin.bat but bash directly, possibly by clicking
> the mouse or even modifying the short cut created by setup.  Or perhaps
> he chose for setup not to create the short cut and added one of his own
> later.

Sounds correct.

Thanks,
Corinna

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