Greetings, Corinna Vinschen! >> >> If you are accepting suggestions, and up for some experimentation, try >> >> this: >> >> >> >> # getent passwd $(id -u) > /etc/passwd >> >> # getent group $(id -G) > /etc/group >> >> # echo -e "#\npasswd: files db\ngroup: files db\n" > /etc/nsswitch.conf >> >> >> >> and start bash without cygserver running. Just for test. >> >> The idea is to have "your" groups in files so that in simple case of (just >> >> startup" Cygwin don't have to talk to DC all too much. If at all. >> >> >> >> You'd still need to run cygserver to benefit from long-time caching, >> >> though. >> >> > Do you feel up to the task to extend the FAQ entry >> >> > https://cygwin.com/faq/faq.html#faq.using.startup-slow >> >> > with a description of your solution? >> >> I took a liberty to reorder and rewrite it a little. >> Please tell me, if I didn't lost anything in the process.
> It reads nicely. The paragraph starting with "The 1.7.35 release is > expected..." needs a tweak as soon as 1.7.35 goes release, of course, > but otherwise it's really neat. > The problem is this: The source of the file is not in HTML but in XML, > see https://sourceware.org/viewvc/src/winsup/doc/faq-setup.xml?view=log > Any problem to rework for XML and sending as unified patch against the > latest version of the file from CVS? I was unable to find relevant CVS tree. The winsup/doc appears to contain the parts of /cygwin-ug-net/ but not the /faq/ part of the website. -- WBR, Andrey Repin (anrdae...@yandex.ru) 15.02.2015, <21:37> Sorry for my terrible english... -- 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
