X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org
From: "Dave Korn" <dave DOT korn AT artimi DOT com>
To: <cygwin AT cygwin DOT com>
References: <467FFFE2 DOT 20803 AT cygwin DOT com> from "Larry Hall (Cygwin)" at Jun 25, 2007 01:48:18 PM <200706251801 DOT l5PI1sX13252 AT mrvideo DOT vidiot DOT com>
Subject: RE: Reloaded Win XP, now need to reload cygwin - sorta
Date: Mon, 25 Jun 2007 19:26:13 +0100
Message-ID: <000301c7b756$4fa9ff80$2e08a8c0@CAM.ARTIMI.COM>
MIME-Version: 1.0
Content-Type: text/plain; 	charset="US-ASCII"
Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit
X-Mailer: Microsoft Office Outlook 11
In-Reply-To: <200706251801.l5PI1sX13252@mrvideo.vidiot.com>
Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help AT cygwin DOT com; run by ezmlm
Precedence: bulk
List-Id: <cygwin.cygwin.com>
List-Unsubscribe: <mailto:cygwin-unsubscribe-archive-cygwin=delorie DOT com AT cygwin DOT com>
List-Subscribe: <mailto:cygwin-subscribe AT cygwin DOT com>
List-Archive: <http://sourceware.org/ml/cygwin/>
List-Post: <mailto:cygwin AT cygwin DOT com>
List-Help: <mailto:cygwin-help AT cygwin DOT com>, <http://sourceware.org/ml/#faqs>
Sender: cygwin-owner AT cygwin DOT com
Mail-Followup-To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com
Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin AT cygwin DOT com

On 25 June 2007 19:02, Vidiot wrote:

> Larry responded:
> 
>> Both 'cron' and 'ssh' have config scripts that handle installing and
>> starting the service for you, if you let them.  They are documented in
>> their README files in '/usr/share/doc/Cygwin'.  'cygrunsrv --help' gives
>> you an overview of the command and it's available options.
> 
> That is all fine and dandy if you know where to look.  A new user isn't
> going to have a clue and I hadn't dealt with configuring cygwin in over a
> year, so I promptly forgot.
> 
> So, new users are going to rely on the on-line documentation.  In this
> case there is nothing.  Would be be that difficult to document the
> configuration of programs like this on line?  The web page did say that the
> user doc is comprehensive and it isn't.  And, the FAQ is meant for queries
> like this and it too has nothing.
> 
> I think it is a suggest well worth looking into.

  No, it's a really bad idea.

  Your suggestion amounts to "People might look in the wrong place for the
documentation, so put all the documentation in every single place they might
look".

  Of course, anyone who bothers to read the FAQ will see the entry entitled
"Where's the documentation", and know where to look for it, and anyone who
doesn't bother to read the FAQ isn't going to see the information about how to
set up servers even if we did pointlessly duplicate it there, so your idea
would help precisely zero people.

  Do you work for the Department of Redundancy Department, by any chance?


    cheers,
      DaveK
-- 
Can't think of a witty .sigline today....


--
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/