On 2009年6月29日 17:41:08 +1000, Thorsten Kampe <thorsten@thorstenkampe.de> wrote: > * Dave Tang (2009年6月29日 17:34:44 +1000) >> Dave, don't send emails to my private email address. Keep the Reply-to > to the list. > Sorry about that, will remember that. >> Have a look at /etc/passwd how HOME is set. Check if that file is > sourced. Then you could set option xtrace to see what is being done. I did a bit of googling but could not work out how I can find out if a file is sourced. I also tried to search for "set option xtrace" without luck. Could you elaborate a bit more for a biologist? Really appreciate your help, Dave >> Thorsten -- Using Opera's revolutionary e-mail client: http://www.opera.com/mail/ -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple