Re: No etc/passwd (was) Re: (everything!) command not found

[DY <yarringt at agora-net dot com>]

Oh, I'm sorry, I meant that the directory my prompt defaults to.  I 
wanted the directory my
prompt defaulted to to be my home directory.  When I installed cygwin 
last time the
default directory was my home directory, and the prompt showed the 
directory I was
currently in (e.g., my prompt looked like: /home/yarringt$).  Now I get 
as a prompt bash-3.2$
and the directory it starts in is c:/cygwin.

I guess my biggest fear is that cygwin is not installed properly, so 
when I try to install and
run perl scripts they won't work.  More specifically I want to make sure 
my paths are
set properly, and I would actually like it if I could make it so when I 
enter cygwin I default
to my home directory.   I would also like to know if having a passwd and 
a profile are
necessary, and, if so, what should they look like. 

Less specifically, why didn't cygwin's set up automatically create a 
passwd and a profile
for me when it does for everyone else and what does that indicate about 
cygwin's being
installed properly.

Thanks!
-Debra

Mark J. Reed wrote:
> On Sun, Aug 16, 2009 at 1:07 PM, DY wrote:
>   
> > no - when I was looking at the cygwin icon I was saying the path.
> > Sorry for the confusion.
> >     
>
> "Here's the deal.  My prompt defaults to c:/cygwin and I want
> it to default to my home directory (with the path as the prompt)."
>
> Confusing indeed!  So what are you actually trying to accomplish now?
>
>   

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