Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin@cygwin.com Date: Wed, 26 Oct 2005 12:40:42 -0400 From: Christopher Faylor To: cygwin@cygwin.com Subject: Re: AllVersions: Running Cygwin X w/ Registy Entries Message-ID: <20051026164042.GA6062@trixie.casa.cgf.cx> Reply-To: cygwin@cygwin.com References: <1130262948.435e71a4abd76@webmail.mail.gatech.edu> <1130283941.435ec3a5672f2@webmail.mail.gatech.edu> <4kmnzwxkibr0.1rd655owgqdi6$.dlg@40tude.net> <20051026143731.GA1936@trixie.casa.cgf.cx> <1g329hewnak2$.1knc01godo1ld.dlg@40tude.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <1g329hewnak2$.1knc01godo1ld.dlg@40tude.net> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.8i On Wed, Oct 26, 2005 at 05:16:56PM +0100, Thorsten Kampe wrote: >* Christopher Faylor (2005-10-26 15:37 +0100) >> On Wed, Oct 26, 2005 at 10:26:36AM +0100, Thorsten Kampe wrote: >>>* gtg793x@mail.gatech.edu (2005-10-26 00:45 +0100) >>>> Quoting Igor Pechtchanski : >>>>> See "man mount". Please, please, please don't manipulate the registry >>>>> directly if you want to stay portable. You can easily create a batch file >>>>> to reproduce the mounts properly. >>>>> ... >>>>> "User mounts" is the answer. The CURRENT_USER tree is usually writable. >>>>> Make sure you don't write over the existing settings if they are present. >>>> >>>> Current XP computers I am trying to run this into give me: "Registry Editing has >>>> been Disabled by your administrator." even if I try to write to Current_User >>>> >>>> All I am trying to keep portable is the X server thus XWIN.exe is the only >>>> executable I have, the only one I execute. After running the X server as the >>>> background server I am tunneling the packets using Putty / Securecrt. >>> >>>Try "regedit /s" in a batch (instead of double clicking). This >>>sometimes works. >> >> Or, I dunno, if that works, you could just use "mount" and forget about >> regedit entirely. >> >> It's a crazy idea, I know. I wonder why no one has thought of it before. > >*I* didn't know about it (because I was under the impression that all >cygwin programs depend on the mount tables). http://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/2005-10/msg00855.html http://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/2005-10/msg00863.html ...but yet you still keep going. >Well, obviously there are a few that don't (mount, cygcheck, ash (?), >etc.?) All cygwin programs rely on the mount table. >And I think it's easier to just import a reg file than dealing with >multiple mount commands... I assume that you'll be quite surprised, if/when we either do away with the registry or change the format. cgf -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/