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On Jan 30, 2008 11:35 PM, jrtayloriv  wrote:
>
> Sorry, I am not used to Windows at all -- I've only been using Linux for the
> past several years and I've forgotten about a lot of things.
>
> Because of this, it seems that I am having trouble asking the right
> question...
>
> I am talking about how to get Cygwin itself to run in the background. Once I
> start up the Cygwin shell, I am able to run SSH as a background service
> within Cygwin. But when I close the Cygwin shell, I loose the SSH server
> running within it.
>
> What I need is information on how to run ***CYGWIN*** as a background
> service, so that there is no Cygwin window open, but the services that are
> running in Cygwin (in this case sshd) are still there. Do I even need to run
> Cygwin for this? Can I just run cygwin's sshd from windows?

CYGWIN is not a program to be run.  You can just run sshd as a service
and get what you want.

If you ssh to your Cygwin sshd system, you can run a bash shell or
whatever shell you want.

CYGWIN isn't something you run, it's just a dll that does fancy
translation of win32 calls to unixy calls and vice versa so recompiled
unixy programs can work properly on a Windows system.  That is
probably oversimplifying it and I'm sure fifteen other people could
point out how what I said is incorrect or misleading, but it should
explain it well enough.

>
> I do know what the 'Run' menu is in Windows. I also found information about
> Cygserver in the online documentation -- is this what I need? Are you trying
> to tell me to use the Run menu with 'cygrunsrv.exe' ? Or are you telling me
> to run sshd from 'Run' menu?
>

Cygserver and cygrunsrv.exe are two different things.  You do not need
Cygserver.

If you run ssh-host-config it will create an sshd service using
cygrunsrv.exe for you.  Then you can just start it just like any other
windows service.

> Once again, I'm really not at home in Windows, so let me know if I'm missing
> something. If I am not understanding something could you at least point me
> in the right direction for what I need to look up?
>
> Thanks,
> jrtayloriv
> --

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