From: fiat_owner AT yahoo DOT com (Jon Byron Davis) Subject: last few Q's: services daemons cron 4 Feb 1998 14:54:59 -0800 Message-ID: <34D8B185.FB230B2F.cygnus.gnu-win32@mit.edu> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: gnuwin32 a) Is it preferred to start daemons as services? (BTW: I have only a hazy idea as to what exactly a service IS under NT) I assume that this is what I want to do, as I'd prefer not to have to stay logged into a bash all the time. Can I just tell the NT service manager to start *netd on startup? Or am I gonna have to use that srvany.exe utility I keep hearing about? b) Has anyone ported cron/crond? I can't seem to figure out at. c) Where is /dev/ ? I made a directory and touched /dev/null just so I could > stuff to /dev/null, but what about all of the ttys and so on? Whew! I apologize if any of my questions have been gone over before. I appreciate any help you all might be able to offer! Thanks, Byron fiat_owner AT yahoo DOT com -- Jon Byron Davis 617.629.4194 88 Concord Ave. #2 jbdavis AT mit DOT edu Somerville, MA 02143 fiat_owner AT yahoo DOT com "We saw shadows of the morning light -- shadows of the evening sun" - For help on using this list (especially unsubscribing), send a message to "gnu-win32-request AT cygnus DOT com" with one line of text: "help".