Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help AT cygwin DOT com; run by ezmlm List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner AT cygwin DOT com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Date: Sun, 15 Sep 2002 15:02:38 -0400 From: Christopher Faylor To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Subject: Re: Questions galore Message-ID: <20020915190238.GB32609@redhat.com> Reply-To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com References: <002e01c25ce3$4a3f7700$5526fbc1 AT exostation> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <002e01c25ce3$4a3f7700$5526fbc1@exostation> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4i On Sun, Sep 15, 2002 at 08:11:18PM +0200, Francois de Campagnolle wrote: > >Hi, > >I have a couple of questions concerning cygwin (both 98 and NT), which I >have not been able to find an answer to in the FAQs. > >1) What does cygserver do ? Nothing, right now. >2) Is there a way to run startups (/etc/rc like) scripts at startup or logon >time ? I would like to run inetd this way, among others. No. Or, rather, sure *you* could set up your system to do this but there is nothing available out-of-the-box. It is very unlikely that there ever will be anything like this. If you were interested, you might be able to port "init" to cygwin. That's what handles this on UNIX. >3) Is there an rxvt alternative (besides cmd.exe), which (like cyg rxvt) >does not require an X server ? I currently use IVT telnet client (pretty >good), but it wants inetd running. I find rxvt more or less buggy both on my >win98 and winNT box (got many blue screens recently). Not in the standard distribution, no. If rxvt is causing WinNT to "blue screen" then something is wrong with your WinNT. >4) Is it possible to get a bash process with a tty, with another process >talking to it through a pipe though ? I know this is a rather often asked >question, but I haven't found a definitive answer on this. You'd do this just like you do on UNIX, i.e., you'd use a pty to control bash, not a pipe. If you are talking about a non-cygwin program trying to control a cygwin program, then this will be very difficult. cgf -- Please do not send me personal email with cygwin questions. Use the resources at http://cygwin.com/ . -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Bug reporting: http://cygwin.com/bugs.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/