$HOME vs $Home was: WARNING TO CROOMBE, READ THIS IMMEDIATELY !!! Re: [oclug] Strange Fedora problem

[Brad Barnett]

On Fri, 04 Aug 2006 13:07:11 -0400
Jamon Camisso <jamonation at gmail.com> wrote:

> BB wrote:
> > When you're running these tests, who are you logged in as and what is
> > the output of pwd?
> 
> Root or my local user. As root, /root, as user, /home/user. The trailing
> / does the same thing for both, that is, resolves to /
> 
> pwd of course shows /home/user and /root as it should.


pwd shouldn't show that, if you execute the "cd /" before performing your
ls commands.