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Re: strange login behavior


At 10:14 AM 8/18/2004, you wrote:
>I am experiencing some strange login behavior.  First, some bachground
>on my situation.  I prefer the putty terminal over the MS cmd window
>that cygwin.bat uses.  So I use putty and ssh into my cygwin account.
>
>Two problems.  One, when I ssh into my acct I'm not getting the latest
>PATH entries I've entered via Windows.  I'll show some of my .bashrc:
>
>JAVA_HOME=~/java/j2sdk1.4.2_04
>ANT_HOME=~/java/apache-ant-1.6.1
>CATALINA_HOME=~/java/jakarta-tomcat-5.0.25
>MYSQL_HOME=~/mysql
>
>PATH=$PATH:/cygdrive/c/Program\
>Files/vim/vim61:$JAVA_HOME/bin:$ANT_HOME/bin:$CATALINA_HOME/bin:$MYSQL_HOME/bin
>
>When I echo my PATH via a MS cmd window I get:
>H:\>echo %PATH%
>C:\java\Sun\AppServer\BIN;C:\java\apache-ant-1.6.1\BIN;c:\mysql\bin;C:\java\j2sd
>k1.4.2_04\bin;C:\WINDOWS\system32;C:\WINDOWS;C:\WINDOWS\System32\Wbem;C:\PROGRA~
>1\CA\SHARED~1\SCANEN~1;C:\PROGRA~1\CA\ETRUST~1;
>
>So I would expect that Sun\AppServer entry to show up in my
>Putty/Cygwin window.  Any ideas on this?


Does it work with 'ssh'?  It works fine for me with 'ssh', even with pubkey
authentication. ;-)  


>Second issue (this might should be a seperate email) is related to the
>Cygwin shortcut that runs the cygwin.bat.  For some reason my
>.bash_profile/.bashrc aren't getting excuted.  And even worse my $HOME
>is very different.
>
>In the MS cmd window (via cygwin shortcut) I get:
>erikweibust@DALEWEIBUST [/home/erikweibust] $ cd
>erikweibust@DALEWEIBUST [~] $ pwd
>/cygdrive/c/java/source
>erikweibust@DALEWEIBUST [~] $ echo $HOME
>/cygdrive/c/java/source
>
>And then in the putty window I get:
>erikweibust@DALEWEIBUST [~] $ cd
>erikweibust@DALEWEIBUST [~] $ pwd
>/home/erikweibust
>erikweibust@DALEWEIBUST [~] $ echo $HOME
>/home/erikweibust
>erikweibust@DALEWEIBUST [~] $
>
>Anybody have any ideas?  I felt like these might be loosely related.


Quite possibly.  Do you set $HOME in your Windows environment?  $HOME
will be set to the home directory listed in '/etc/passwd' for 
'erikweibust' when you "login" to via secure shell.


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