Re: USER environment variable mystery

2002-11-23 Thread Soren A
Steve Núñez <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote around 22 Nov 2002 5.2.0.9.0.20021123115631.00ad1780@localhost:">news:5.2.0.9.0.20021123115631.00ad1780@localhost: > Does anyone know how to *really* change the environment variables? You have the wrong env variable. Try setting USERNAME *in cygwin.bat* (ho

Re: USER environment variable mystery

2002-11-23 Thread Max Bowsher
Steve Núñez <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I've recently spent some time configuring cygwin, and it's mostly > gone as expected. I say mostly because I've noticed a strange > behavior with the USER environment variable, and possibly others. > I've set this in both ~/.bashrc and in /etc/profile to be

USER environment variable mystery

2002-11-22 Thread Steve Núñez
Hi All, I've recently spent some time configuring cygwin, and it's mostly gone as expected. I say mostly because I've noticed a strange behavior with the USER environment variable, and possibly others. I've set this in both ~/.bashrc and in /etc/profile to be the user name that our UNIX machine