At 10:26 AM 1/21/2004, Edward W. Rouse you wrote: >I have installed Cygwin 1.5.5 on a Win2000 box. I included all of the >packages, just to be safe. But I can't figure out where to add services >to the init process. cygwin.bat starts the bash shell fine and I have >set the PATH and some variables there. > >I want to start PostgreSQL and cvs only when I have the Cygwin session >window open. Where do I put the commands? I have created a script to >start and stop these services from the command line, but would really >like to automate the process. > >I am more familiar with the way SuSE works and following the RedHat >reference guide did not help. I searched the archives and the Cygwin >documentation but didn't find anything that addresses starting and >stopping services when using the bash shell. > >I did see someone mention a .bash-shutdown file. Is there also a >.bash-startup file and where would it go? Or am I supposed to use the >/etc/defaults/etc/bash.bashrc file?
This sounds more like a generic bash question than a Cygwin one but I'll bite. If you'll only ever have one window started from cygwin.bat open at a time, just add the start-up to ~/.bash_login and the shutdown to ~/.bash_logout. If you'll have more than one window open at a time, you'll want to add some logic to avoid multiple attempts to start and stop these services. HTH, -- Larry Hall http://www.rfk.com RFK Partners, Inc. (508) 893-9779 - RFK Office 838 Washington Street (508) 893-9889 - FAX Holliston, MA 01746 -- 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/
