I appreciate the feedback from Jeremy Bopp and Corinna Vinschen. Just after Jeremy's email I did the upgrade and it went very smoothly.
Thanks very much. Lester -------- Original Message -------- Subject: queries on Environment and Services before 1.5 -> 1.7 upgrade From: Lester Ingber <ing...@alumni.caltech.edu> To: cygwin@cygwin.com Date: Wed Apr 28 2010 11:07:58 GMT-0700 (Pacific Daylight Time) > I have some questions prior to upgrading from 1.5.25-15 to 1.7 > (currently 1.7.5-1) with respect to Environment and Services. > > I already am aware that after the upgrade I should run > /bin/copy-user-registry-fstab > presumably in my first console shell. > > Under My Computer -> Advanced -> Environment Variables -> System Variables > should the variable server in > Cygwin server > be changed to no argument (unless there is a good reason to put in one?) > Cygwin > before the upgrade? That is, is it OK to have nothing as the variable? > > Under Administrative Services (Local) I now have cygrunsrv.exe used in: > > Cron daemon > C:\cygwin\bin\cygrunsrv.exe > Automatic > > CYGWIN cygserver > C:\cygwin\bin\cygrunsrv.exe > Automatic > > CYGWIN sshd > C:\cygwin\bin\cygrunsrv.exe > Manual > > Should these be changed or turned off during the upgrade? That is, > should these be disabled and then after the upgrade run > /usr/bin/cygserver-config > as if I were starting cygserver for the first time? > > Are there any other common settings I should change before upgrading? I > did look at the docs, but did not notice anything else. > > Thanks. > > Lester -- Prof. Lester Ingber les...@ingber.com ing...@alumni.caltech.edu http://www.ingber.com http://alumni.caltech.edu/~ingber -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple
