Mail Archives: cygwin/2006/10/24/14:53:21
Dave Down wrote:
> I'm a new cygwin user but I'm a long term windows user and have worked with
> unix/linux in the past. I can use the cygwin network clients, but I'm
> confused about the server daemons. On regular linux systems, "inetd" is
> started automatically, but it isn't with cygwin . I looked for information
> about this in the user manual, but didn't see it mentioned.
>
> I then looked around in files and found in "inetd.conf" that the command
> "net start inetd" should start it, but when I enter the command, I get the
> error "The service name is invalid." from the windows net utility and I
> didn't find documentation for installing it as a service.
>
> So, is "inetd" not usable with cygwin or is there somewhere that I can read
> about how to set it up? Does it conflict with windows network services? I
> can start the windows telnet server and log in from another computer that
> way and the Xwindows features of cygwin are working fine, so I'd expect the
> others like "ftpd" should be usable too.
>
> I'll continue to dig around trying to find answers, but if someone would
> spend a few minutes to save me many more hours of frustration, I'd
> appreciate it...
Read '/usr/share/doc/Cygwin/inetutils-1.3.2.README' and then use
'/usr/bin/iu-config' to configure it. Do the first thing first and
the second thing second to avoid tripping and falling. Also, don't
run with scissors! ;-)
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