On Fri, 8 Nov 2002, Sergey Okhapkin wrote: > I'm too lazy to send 2 URLs:-)
I suppose because of the overwealmingly positive response we can make an exception... > > > While I really like the idea of having an init running, I don't > > > think that simply selecting the package should make it install as a > > > service with the postinstall script (!). You might take a look at > > > how Corinna did sshd. > > Sshd can run as stand-alone service or from inetd. Init supposed to run as a > service only. I don't expect somebody need to run init from something other > than cygrunsrv:-) Well, yes, but just because someone downloads init (for example, to run agetty) doesn't mean they want it running every time they start up thier computer! > > > Some other questions that come to mind: > > > --any thoughts on more support for runlevels in inittab? > > inittab supports all runlevels. The file in the package is for reference > only. I'm going to provide redhat-like initscripts package later. Sounds great. (BTW Sergey also sent me off-list an example of running xinetd as a service started from init--though to do it properly we will need initscripts. Very exciting stuff.) > > > --does this work on Win9x/ME? > > I don't know. I have no any Win9x installation around. Can someone test this? Also, what about the cygutils /usr/bin/last.exe collision? -- Joshua Daniel Franklin Network Administrator IOCC.COM
