Mailing-List: contact cygwin-announce-help AT sourceware DOT cygnus DOT com; run by ezmlm List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-announce-owner AT sources DOT redhat DOT com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin-announce AT sources DOT redhat DOT com Delivered-To: moderator for cygwin-announce AT sources DOT redhat DOT com Date: Mon, 14 May 2001 13:06:40 +0200 From: Corinna Vinschen To: cygann Subject: New on sources: cygrunsrv-0.92 Message-ID: <20010514130640.B28152@cygbert.vinschen.de> Reply-To: cygwin Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i I have uploaded version 0.92 of my own implementation of a NT/W2K service starter application called `cygrunsrv'. It can completely substitute Microsoft's INSTSRV and SRVANY and is a Cygwin application itself so it obviously supports Cygwin applications better. `cygrunsrv' will be installed into /bin. This is important so that it finds cygwin1.dll even if the Windows %PATH% variable doesn't contain the path to cygwin1.dll. `cygrunsrv' itself always adds "/bin" to $PATH so that the started applications will find cygwin1.dll as well. There's currently one caveat, though. If the application behaves as a daemon and exits after forking a child, cygrunsrv does immediately stop the service. That means, that you have to start the application so that it doesn't fork a daemon but does everything by itself. sshd for example has to be called with the -D option. Otherwise the sshd daemon runs but is not stoppable through the service manager. I want to use `cygrunsrv' in future ssh-host-config scripts to ease the installation of sshd. Usage: ====== Main options: Exactly one is required. -I, --install Installes a new service named . -R, --remove Removes a service named . -S, --start Starts a service named . -E, --stop Stops a service named . Required install options: -p, --path Application path which is run as a service. Miscellaneous install options: -a, --args Optional string with command line options which is given to the service application on startup. -e, --env Optional environment strings which are added to the environment when service is started. You can add up to 255 environment strings using the `--env' option. Note: /bin is always added to $PATH to allow all started applications to find at least cygwin1.dll. -d, --disp Optional string which contains the display name of the service. Defaults to service name. -t, --type [auto|manual] Optional start type of service. Defaults to `auto'. -u, --user Optional user name to start service as. Defaults to SYSTEM account. -w, --passwd Optional password for user. Only needed if a user is given. If a user has an empty password, enter `-w '. If a user is given but no password, cygrunsrv will ask for a password interactively. Informative output: -h, --help print this help, then exit. -v, --version print cygrunsrv program version number, then exit. Examples: ========= To install the Cygwin application /bin/foo as service "foo" running under LocalSystem account, no special options: cygrunsrv -I foo -p /bin/foo To install /bin/foo as a service "bar" which requires command line options: cygrunsrv -I bar -p /bin/foo -a '--opt1 --opt2 -x' To install /bin/foo as a service "baz" which requires a command line option which contains spaces: cygrunsrv -I baz -p /bin/foo -a "-x 'this has spaces inside'" or cygrunsrv -I baz -p /bin/foo -a '-x "this has spaces inside"' To install /bin/foo as a service "foo bar" which doesn't automatically startup when the system boots: cygrunsrv -I "foo bar" -p /bin/foo -t manual To install /bin/foo as a service "bongo" which requires settings for the environment variables "ENV_VAR_1" and "ENV_VAR_2" to run correctly: cygrunsrv -I bongo -p /bin/foo -e "ENV_VAR_1=important_1" \ -e "ENV_VAR_2=also_important" To install sshd as service under user `joey' account: cygrunsrv -I "Joey sshd" -p /usr/sbin/sshd -a '-d' -u joey cygrunsrv asks for `joey's password interactively. If one wants to give joey's password (say, "privy23") on the command line: cygrunsrv -I "Joey sshd" -p /usr/sbin/sshd -a '-D' -u joey -w privy23 To start the service `foo': cygrunsrv -S foo To stop the service `foo': cygrunsrv -E foo To uninstall the service `foo': cygrunsrv -R foo To update your installation, click on the "Install Cygwin now" link on the http://cygwin.com web page. This downloads setup.exe to your system. Run setup and answer all of the questions. The mirrors below have the latest version of this package: ftp://linux.sarang.net/mirror/development/compiler/cygwin/ (Korea) ftp://ftp.mirror.ac.uk/sites/sourceware.cygnus.com/pub/cygwin/ (UK) ftp://ftp.sunsite.utk.edu/pub/cygwin/ (US) Note that if this is the first time that you've run the new GUI version of setup, it will currently download the whole cygwin net release again. After this point it will only download what is needed. If you have questions or comments, please send them to the Cygwin mailing list at: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com . I would appreciate if you would use this mailing list rather than emailing me directly. This includes ideas and comments about the setup utility or Cygwin in general. If you want to make a point or ask a question the Cygwin mailing list is the appropriate place. *** CYGWIN-ANNOUNCE UNSUBSCRIBE INFO *** If you want to unsubscribe to the cygwin-announce mailing list, look at the "List-Unsubscribe: " tag in the email header of this message. Send email to the address specified there. It will be in the format: cygwin-announce-unsubscribe-you=yourdomain DOT com AT cygwin DOT com -- Corinna Vinschen Please, send mails regarding Cygwin to Cygwin Developer mailto:cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Red Hat, Inc.