X-Recipient: archive-cygwin@delorie.com X-SWARE-Spam-Status: No, hits=-1.3 required=5.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_00,DKIM_SIGNED,DKIM_VALID,DKIM_VALID_AU,FREEMAIL_ENVFROM_END_DIGIT,FREEMAIL_FROM,RCVD_IN_DNSWL_LOW X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Message-ID: <4E1E4220.30304@gmail.com> Date: Thu, 14 Jul 2011 04:10:56 +0300 From: THE Sorcerer User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 6.1; en-US; rv:1.9.2.18) Gecko/20110616 Thunderbird/3.1.11 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Rance Hall CC: cygwin@cygwin.com Subject: Re: automatic deploying, howto ? References: <4E1CF91A.9030500@gmail.com> In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-IsSubscribed: yes Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm List-Id: 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 it is not easy, but it DO, solve my problem so, thank you ! :) On 2011-07-13 5:14, Rance Hall wrote: > On Tue, Jul 12, 2011 at 8:47 PM, THE Sorcerer wrote: > >> is there anyway to automate install on all of them (with my choice of >> packages) ? >> >> also, is there any way to automate install of some services ? (like crond or >> sshd) >> >> >> thank you ! >> > It's not as simple as a having an answer file and telling the setup > tool to look for it, but what you want is possible. > > Run the setup file from an administrator level command line something > like this "c:\cygwin\setup.exe --help" > > review the options presented and see if they give you enough > flexibility to do what you want. > > I wrote a windows batch file that downloads a fresh copy of the > installer from the web, and the executes the setup file with my > supplied options, and it works for me. > > You can specify the directory, a specific mirror (yours perhaps) and > the list of packages you want installed on the command line. > > As to your second question... > > How you install and configure each daemon is subtly different. IF the > command to start each of the services you want to start is something > that can be run from windows (it should) and doesn't require human > interaction (sshd does not, but that's the only one I've ever needed) > then you can just add the appropriate commands to the end of your > batch file that you use to install cygwin in the first place. > > You will likely also want some sort of update script that you can run > on each machine that will stop the services, update cygwin, and > restart the needed services. > > HTH > > Rance > > -- > Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html > FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ > Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html > Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple > -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple