Phil Couling <couling@gmail.com> was heard to say: > I have cygwin pre installed on a pc I'm using. I'd like to change the > home directory ($HOME) but I'm having some trouble finding where it's > been set. Currently it points to a drive letter q: . I'd much prefer > to point it at /home/username. /etc/profile says: # Here is how HOME is set, in order of priority, when starting from Windows # 1) From existing HOME in the Windows environment, translated to a Posix path # 2) from /etc/passwd, if there is an entry with a non empty directory field # 3) from HOMEDRIVE/HOMEPATH # 4) / (root) I've used #1. HTH Markus -- Markus Hoenicka http://www.mhoenicka.de AQ score 38 -- 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