2009/6/29 Dave Tang: > So I've changed my home directory to /home/d.tang in my passwd file. I > copied the .bashrc into my new home directory. > > But when I restart cygwin, it still doesn't load the .bashrc.
Bash on Cygwin is normally invoked as a login shell, in which case it doesn't source .bashrc. Instead, it sources .bash_profile or .profile, so unless you explicitly source .bashrc from there, it won't be processed. See here for the full story: http://www.gnu.org/software/bash/manual/bashref.html#Bash-Startup-Files Andy -- 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
