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: Fri, 19 Nov 2004 10:38:37 -0500 From: Christopher Faylor To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Subject: Re: preconfigured(customized) cygwin install possible? Message-ID: <20041119153837.GG23956@trixie.casa.cgf.cx> Reply-To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com References: <1100856978 DOT 3939 DOT 8 DOT camel AT localhost DOT localdomain> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <1100856978.3939.8.camel@localhost.localdomain> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.1i On Fri, Nov 19, 2004 at 10:36:18AM +0100, Herman wrote: >I need to rollout an cygwin install with some customized default >settings and i was wondering if its possible to install cygwin >preconfigured? > >What I had in mind is an cygwin configuration that runs sshd default and >together with an autorized_keys file. And rsync has to be installed. Its >to much pain to configure cygwin on every machine. > >Maybe its needed to hack the cygwin installer? I was actually hoping >there was some feature for a customized install but i couldn't find >anything about it in the cygwin FAQ or in the mailing list archive. > >As you might have guessed the goal is to easily back up multiple >machines. Maybe i'm just thinking in the wrong direction. There is very little magic here. Cygwin is mainly just a bunch of files on disk. If you back up your c:\cygwin (or whatever) you are most of the way there. In addition, you need to mediate on the documentatio for the "mount" command, paying attention to the "-m" option and the mkpasswd and the mkgroup command. If you are installing services, you will need to install them on every system that you copy this to. -- Christopher Faylor spammer? -> aaaspam AT sourceware DOT org Cygwin Co-Project Leader aaaspam AT duffek DOT com TimeSys, Inc. -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/