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Re: db_home setting in nsswitch.conf is ignored.
- From: Andrey Repin <anrdaemon at yandex dot ru>
- To: "Buchbinder, Barry (NIH/NIAID) [E]" <BBuchbinder at niaid dot nih dot gov>, cygwin at cygwin dot com
- Date: Fri, 24 Jul 2015 18:57:39 +0300
- Subject: Re: db_home setting in nsswitch.conf is ignored.
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Greetings, Buchbinder, Barry (NIH/NIAID) [E]!
> Suggestion for the Cygwin developers:
> What about a file in /etc that contains contain environmental variables
> that sets cygwin-specific variables and overrides anything in Windows'
> environment?
You can do it yourself by creating /etc/environment and sourcing it from user
profile script.
> It would also make it possible to clone an installation by
> copying - no need to modify the environment.
> See https://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/2010-01/msg00977.html
> Sorry, I'm not a coder and cannot contribute a developer a cannot
> propose a path.
> As previously: "Just a suggestion, not a request."
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With best regards,
Andrey Repin
Friday, July 24, 2015 18:55:04
Sorry for my terrible english...
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