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Date:	Wed, 2 Nov 2005 12:48:08 -0500
From:	Christopher Faylor <cgf-no-personal-reply-please AT cygwin DOT com>
To:	cygwin AT cygwin DOT com
Subject:	Re: cygcheck improvements
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On Wed, Nov 02, 2005 at 12:45:13PM -0500, Christopher Faylor wrote:
>On Wed, Nov 02, 2005 at 05:37:25PM -0000, Dave Korn wrote:
>>Christopher Faylor wrote:
>>> Seeing Igor's analysis of corrupt /etc/services symlinks reminded me
>>> that I wanted to start a discussion on cygcheck improvements.
>>> 
>>> Ideally, cygcheck should report on things like /etc/services being
>>> wrong.
>>> 
>>> What other kind of common things could cygcheck be testing for?
>>
>>Cygwin-related entries still pending in the Replace-on-Reboot reg key
>>might be informative.....
>
>Yep.  Good idea.
>
>Should we run cron_diagnose.sh, too?  Or, more generically, maybe we
>should have some way for packages to register themselves with cygcheck
>so that cygcheck would know to run them?  That might be a catch-22, though.

Maybe it would be nice to detect things like "ssh installed but not
configured", too.

cgf

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