X-Recipient: archive-cygwin@delorie.com X-SWARE-Spam-Status: No, hits=-1.8 required=5.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_00,DKIM_SIGNED,DKIM_VALID,DKIM_VALID_AU,T_RP_MATCHES_RCVD X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Date: Thu, 5 Apr 2012 12:25:02 -0700 From: Gary Johnson To: cygwin@cygwin.com Subject: Re: How to run cygwin on boot Message-ID: <20120405192502.GA10385@phoenix> Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com References: <4F7D4CC7.4050908@gmail.com> <4F7D50A1.4050700@gmail.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <4F7D50A1.4050700@gmail.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.20 (2009-06-14) X-IsSubscribed: yes Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Id: List-Unsubscribe: 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 On 2012-04-05, marco atzeri wrote: > On 4/5/2012 9:41 AM, J.V. wrote: > >I need to run a .bat file on startup that will launch a cygwin bash script. > > > >I can put the .bat file in the folder "startup" to connect some network > >drives and then I want to launch a bash script. > > > >Can this be done? > > > >thanks > > > >J.V. > > > > yes. > make a copy of cygwin.bat that is in the the cygwin root > and use > > bash -c "your script" > > instead of > > bash --login -i You may want to keep the "--login" option, e.g., bash --login -c "your script" Otherwise you will not get important parts of the Cygwin environment such as PATH. Regards, Gary -- 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