Mail Archives: cygwin/2001/05/18/14:49:23
At 02:05 PM 5/18/2001, Mark Keil wrote:
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Larry Hall (RFK Partners, Inc) [mailto:lhall AT rfk DOT com]
> > Sent: Friday, May 18, 2001 1:51 PM
> > To: Mark Keil; cygwin AT cygwin DOT com
> > Subject: Re: inetd as a microsoft service can't find /etc/inetd.conf
> >
> > missing. With what you've supplied so far, I'm left wondering why
> > inetutils-1.3.2.README doesn't address your concern.
>
>So am I. I do know that one needs to do the mkpasswd step,
>and that is not in inetutils-1.3.2.README
What step is that?
>I have done this:
>
> inetd -- install-as service
>
> net start inetd (and indeed two inetd'd run)
>
> - The environment variable CYGWIN must be either set in the system
> environment to be active from start on or you can set CYGWIN thru
> the registry:
> Under the key HKLM\Software\Cygnus Solutions\Cygwin\Program Options
> create a key of type REG_SZ (String) named like the full DOS path
> to the application, eg. "C:\usr\bin\inetd.exe" and with the value
> equal to the preferred CYGWIN settings, eg "binmode tty ntsec".
>
>I had to use the CYGWIN variable, since regedit just won;'t accept
>"\" in key names, so that documented step option seems just wrong.
>
> - The system environment variable PATH must contain the path
> to the directory which contains the cygwin1.dll.
Perhaps you want to submit a patch for this part of the documentation?
>Then there is this step, which doesn't make sense,
>and doesn't seem to be addressed in the user guide.
>Just what does this mean anyway?
>(and I have been using cygin for the last 2.5 years
> without needing it as far as I can tell...)
>
> - No user mount point is valid anymore! You have to install all
> your mount points in the system mount table. This doesn't
> change after you have logged in to a normal user account eg.
> via telnet/rlogin. It's possible that we can use the user
> mounts as soon as somebody contributes a patch to login and
> ftp that allows loading a user hive into the registry after
> authentication.
It means pretty much what Egor said. Your mount points need to be
system-wide, not just on a per user basis. Check out mount --help
for more information about this.
Larry Hall lhall AT rfk DOT com
RFK Partners, Inc. http://www.rfk.com
118 Washington Street (508) 893-9779 - RFK Office
Holliston, MA 01746 (508) 893-9889 - FAX
--
Want to unsubscribe from this list?
Check out: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple
- Raw text -