This is the mail archive of the cygwin mailing list for the Cygwin project.


Index Nav: [Date Index] [Subject Index] [Author Index] [Thread Index]
Message Nav: [Date Prev] [Date Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next]
Other format: [Raw text]

Re: Cygwin installing into wrong directory


Dave Korn wrote:
On 29 August 2006 16:09, Larry Hall (Cygwin) wrote:

Chuck wrote:

[ ... ] Then I noticed that it created my user home directory in
"c:\documents and settings\userid". I wanted it in "c:\cygwin\home"
where it was before. What happened and how can I move it. I do NOT want
it cluttering up "documents and settings".

 [ ... ]    If you must, you can also set HOME in your
Windows environment to the directory you want.  When Cygwin starts,
it will use this value to override all others set.

Isn't the probably the underlying reason why the home dirs were created in documents and settings in the first place, i.e. does the machine already have HOME set in its environment variables?


Not necessarily.  Windows typically sets HOMEDIRVE and HOMEPATH but not HOME.
The doc-o-settings path is typically the same as these variables but can
also come from the domain server. In environments with domains, the home
directory is set by the domain and, I believe, the HOMEDRIVE and HOMEPATH get
set to the domain's designation on login.


-- Larry Hall http://www.rfk.com RFK Partners, Inc. (508) 893-9779 - RFK Office 216 Dalton Rd. (508) 893-9889 - FAX Holliston, MA 01746

--
Unsubscribe info:      http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple
Problem reports:       http://cygwin.com/problems.html
Documentation:         http://cygwin.com/docs.html
FAQ:                   http://cygwin.com/faq/


Index Nav: [Date Index] [Subject Index] [Author Index] [Thread Index]
Message Nav: [Date Prev] [Date Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next]