----- Original Message ----- From: "Andrew DeFaria" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Thursday, November 15, 2001 8:33 AM Subject: Setup suggestions
> I have a few suggestions for Cygwin's setup.exe: > > 1) Setup should be runnable by the command line with no dialog prompting ... Great. Check the list archives. See the discussion from a contributor that says "I am working on command line options". That might be what you are referring to no? Oh you meant *different* command line options? No. What then? Oh, Command line options, now I get it. > 2) After setup runs it runs a DOS window doing things like mkpasswd -l > > /etc/passwd. I would like to be able to specify to setup not to do that > (after all we are in a domain and -l just isn't appropriate!) but > instead run my own "finishing touches" script. My script does things > like sets up inetd, makes a domain password file, adjusting fields as > needed, etc. You can recompile setup.exe to do this... but ... This is an interesting idea. I am making setup more data driven, and once that is complete we can look at how to allow this. Please have a think about * how you will alter the cygwin.com setup.exe to do this without recompiling it. > 3) Setup will inevitably fail if the user is configured to run inetd as > a service. Invariably the service will be running because the user Again, this is in the list archives. sshd causes problems too. Ever run setup while a bash shell is open - ouch. And yes, solutions are being tabled, but no-one has done much yet. Rob -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Bug reporting: http://cygwin.com/bugs.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/
