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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!munnari.OZ.AU!news.mel.connect.com.au!news.mira.net.au!vic.news.telstra.net!act.news.telstra.net!psgrain!usenet.eel.ufl.edu!news.mathworks.com!news.sprintlink.net!news-peer.sprintlink.net!howland.erols.net!EU.net!usenet2.news.uk.psi.net!uknet!usenet1.news.uk.psi.net!uknet!psinntp!psinntp!pubxfer.news.psi.net!dan.emsphone.com!not-for-mail From: dan@dan.emsphone.com (Dan Nelson) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: 2nd try: amd -vs- home directories... Date: 26 Sep 1996 16:32:25 GMT Organization: Executive Marketing Services, Inc. Lines: 19 Message-ID: <52eb6p$jr1@client3.news.psi.net> References: <3246BCFD.41C67EA6@baynetworks.com> <529ok3$mao@anorak.coverform.lan> <324A6F3A.41C67EA6@baynetworks.com> Reply-To: dnelson@emsphone.com (Dan Nelson) NNTP-Posting-Host: 199.67.51.101 Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Newsreader: TIN [UNIX 1.3 unoff BETA release 960805] Robert Withrow <bwithrow@baynetworks.com> wrote: > > This has always been a bit of a problem. When you do the first "pwd", > > the only way that bash can determine the current directory is by > > climbing the path: > > I wonder why this doesn't happen on sun then? > > login: bwithrow > Password: > SunOS Release 4.1.4 (GENERIC) #1: Fri Sep 20 13:26:37 EDT 1996 > bash$ pwd > /usr25/bwithrow > bash$ echo $HOME > /usr25/bwithrow Check your .profile or .login scripts -- I bet there is a "cd $HOME" in there somewhere. -Dan