* Andy Koppe (Mon, 29 Jun 2009 09:43:44 +0100) > 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.
Excellent point. The default .bash_profile takes care of that. Thorsten -- 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
