[ECOS] Can not login CVS

[Jonathan Larmour]

Christian Plessl wrote:
> 
> At 16:45 07.12.00 +0800, Jerry Yan wrote:
> 
> >I use cygwin  under win2000.
> 
> Well, I dont use cygwin, but for me, this looks as if cvs wants to create a
> file in your home directory (wherever this is on a windows system). So
> maybe you have to set some kind of home-directory environment variable.

This is almost certainly what it is. If you don't have an obvious home
direcotry, make one with: 

  mkdir /home/jerry
then
  HOME=/home/jerry ; export HOME

Put the HOME directory setting in your c:/cygwin/cygwin.bat if you are the
only user of cygwin on your machine.

Jifl
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