X-Recipient: archive-cygwin AT delorie DOT com X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Date: Tue, 25 Nov 2008 14:44:10 -0500 From: Christopher Faylor To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Subject: Re: Running Linux Application on Windows Message-ID: <20081125194410.GA6865@ednor.casa.cgf.cx> Reply-To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com References: <20677518 DOT post AT talk DOT nabble DOT com> <492BE083 DOT 6060406 AT etr-usa DOT com> <20081125162207 DOT GA6541 AT ednor DOT casa DOT cgf DOT cx> <17393e3e0811251027u58a38a98yb9b884a49f2a0de1 AT mail DOT gmail DOT com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <17393e3e0811251027u58a38a98yb9b884a49f2a0de1@mail.gmail.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.16 (2007-06-09) Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help AT cygwin DOT com; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Id: List-Unsubscribe: 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 On Tue, Nov 25, 2008 at 01:27:24PM -0500, Matt Wozniski wrote: >On Tue, Nov 25, 2008 at 11:22 AM, Christopher Faylor wrote: >> On Tue, Nov 25, 2008 at 04:24:51AM -0700, Warren Young wrote: >>> Emil Tan wrote: >>>> Is the documentation kinda wrong? >>> >>> Yes, but that's something you'll have to take up with the people who >>> maintain that file, presumably on the Samhain mailing list. Whoever wrote >>> it doesn't realize that /usr, /home, etc aren't created in c:\, they're >>> mount(1) aliases for directories that actually live in c:\cygwin, by >>> default. >> >> Right. Just to be clear if that is what the documentation tells you to >> do it is frighteningly wrong. > >It doesn't seem that that is what the documentation tells you to do: > >$ ./configure --enable-xml-log=yes --with-tmp-dir=/usr/local/tmp >--with-config-file=/usr/local/etc/samhainrc >--with-log-file=/usr/local/log/samhain.log >--with-pid-file=/usr/local/var/samhain.pid >--with-state-dir=/usr/local/var > >That seems sane to me; I think the OP's explanation/understanding was >just wrong.... > >OTOH, that page also has instructions for a "Cygwin minimal >installation procedure to run samhain" that feature instructions to >copy cygwin1.dll and cygminires.dll to the windows\system32 directory, >and that definitely *is* bad advice. I keep meaning to add code to cygwin to cause it to abort when run from windows/system32... cgf -- 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/