FW: Env variable USER

> On Thu, Feb 23, 2012 at 8:22 AM, Michel Bardiaux wrote: >> >> 1. Is USER supposed to be set? > > Yes. > >> 2. If yes, by what script or process? > > /etc/profile Then mine is indeed damaged, it contains just this: PATH="/usr/local/bin:/usr/bin:/bin:$PATH" Looks like it was *lost* and this was

Re: Env variable USER

On Thu, Feb 23, 2012 at 8:22 AM, Michel Bardiaux wrote: > > 1. Is USER supposed to be set? Yes. > 2. If yes, by what script or process? /etc/profile -- Earnie -- https://sites.google.com/site/earnieboyd -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cy

Env variable USER

It seems that my latest frenzy of setups (the ones that first screwed up, then failed to fix, then at last fixed, coreutils) had some nasty side effects. The first I see is that USER is no longer defined in the environment, at least for bash in mintty. Quite likely one of the bash config files in /