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From: "Curious Mind" <thecuriousmind AT hotmail DOT com>
To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com
Subject: Re: A list of help needed
Date: Tue, 17 Apr 2001 14:04:25 -0800
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Corinna,

Do you have a better way to go about this then? Or which commands I skipped 
that could have lead to my failure? Thanks for replying.




>From: Corinna Vinschen <cygwin AT cygwin DOT com>
>To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com
>Subject: Re: A list of help needed
>Date: Tue, 17 Apr 2001 13:16:12 +0200
>
>On Mon, Apr 16, 2001 at 10:40:26PM -0800, Curious Mind wrote:
> > I went into the inetutils-1.3.2 folder and went to run a make (thinking 
>this
> > would be the best place to start). The make file went thru completely. 
>Then
> > I proceeded to run a Make Install. It went thru fine. Now I wasnt quite 
>sure
>
>Why didn't you use the precompiled binaries?
>
> > where to go from there to start the telnet daemon so I read the
> > inetutils-1.3.2.README. Inside that file it tells me to do 'net start 
>inetd'
>
>No, it didn't tell you that. It tells:
>
>   Under W9X inetd can be started from a shell prompt or from the
>   autostart folder.
>
>   Under NT/W2K inetd must be started from service manager. It
>   [...]
>
> > installed. As far as im aware I do have these installed :). So any 
>pointers
> > on how to get this up and going would be greatly appreciated.
>
>And you didn't mention that you have called `iu-config' which
>creates the important files in /etc for you.
>
> > 3)  When I type 'who' i get the response 'who: /var/run/utmp
> > '. Is this supose to be that way? If not how can I correct this?
>
>That's ok. It's empty since you didn't login to the system.
>Using Cygwin from the console window doesn't leave footprints
>in /var/run/utmp.
>
>Corinna
>
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