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, 2 Nov 2005 17:57:34 -0500 From: Christopher Faylor To: cygwin@cygwin.com Subject: Re: cygcheck improvements Message-ID: <20051102225734.GD17941@trixie.casa.cgf.cx> Reply-To: cygwin@cygwin.com References: <20051102172158.GA6655@trixie.casa.cgf.cx> <43691F86.1B7BE77C@dessent.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <43691F86.1B7BE77C@dessent.net> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.8i On Wed, Nov 02, 2005 at 12:20:22PM -0800, Brian Dessent wrote: >Christopher Faylor wrote: > >> What other kind of common things could cygcheck be testing for? > >I was thinking that instead of just reporting the current value of >$PATH, it would be handy to also report on the Windows/Registry value of >$PATH. That way, you can tell if Cygwin is being added to the path in >cygwin.bat or if the person actually added it to their Windows >environment. I forget exactly why this came up but I remember thinking >it would have been useful more than once when trying to help someone. > >I guess it could also explicitly check /etc/passwd and /etc/group, even >though at the moment you can sort of tell if this has been done by >looking at the output of 'id'. > >The "pending file replacements" idea is a good one too, as is the >"incomplete postinstall script" idea. I'm not sure if the "SYSTEM user >has mounts" issue would come up enough to warrant checking for it, >because I can't really think of how that would come to happen. It might >be good to check if /usr/bin is a user mount and there are services, >then print a warning. This is something that you can determine by >looking at the output already but having it as an explicit warning makes >it more clear, especially for the user who isn't aware of the problem. Given the message that follows this one on the list, should we be issuing a helpful message if there are network shares and services being used on the same system, too? 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/