On Sat, 10 Jul 2004, Richard Heintze wrote: > I typed "info inetd" and it says it should be "run at > boot time by /etc/rc (see rc(8))." > > What the heck does that mean? I tried "info rc" and > that did not work.
Cygwin is a bit different from other Unix-like systems (see <http://cygwin.com/acronyms/#CYNUX>. A lot of the time, to find out how some application works on Cygwin, you should look at the Cygwin-specific README file for the package, which is usually present as /usr/share/doc/Cygwin/<packagename>.README (or, for older packages, /usr/doc/Cygwin/<packagename>.README). This is especially true for daemon packages, like inetd, openssh, sysvinit, etc. > OK, I know a little about UN*X. There are these > directories in rc.d and I see the cygwin installation > has created them on my windows machine. > > Since I have installed cygwin on my windows machine, > are the programs in /etc/rc.d/* run when I log in or > boot? Not by default. See the sysvinit package (and the Cygwin-specific README!). > What is the difference between init.d, rc.local, > rc0.d, rc.sysinit? I think it runs rc0.d before rc1.d > but that is all I can remember. What is the order of > execution for init.d and rc.local and rc.sysinit? > Where is this order documented? Try the Linux documentation project (<http://tdlp.org/>). However, as said above, Cygwin is not Unix (or Linux), so this mostly won't help. Again, I'd refer you to the sysvinit package. > What are these files in init.d called functions, sshd > and stunnel? Am I running OpenSSH already? I guess I > should try it out! If you did a full install, you most likely have installed openssh. You most likely *aren't* running sshd. See the Cygwin-specific README for the openssh package. > So if I want to try out all these interesting programs > in /usr/sbin (does sbin stand for system binary?) like > in.ftpd.exe, cron.exe, in.rlogind.exe, > sftp-server.exe, in.tftpd.exe, proftpd.exe (my > goodness, why are there so many different ftp > servers?) do I just use cp to make a redundant copy in > /etc/rc/rc5.d? No, no, no. You run "cygcheck -f /usr/sbin/<programname>" (e.g., "cygcheck -f /usr/sbin/in.ftpd.exe"), and then look at the Cygwin-specific README for the package which that command returns. If there is no Cygwin-specific README, or it doesn't contain the necessary information, only then do you go to the regular package docs. > What is the difference between /usr/sbin and /sbin? On Unix, /usr is usually mounted off a shared network disk, so /sbin contained all the daemons needed to boot the machine and bring it to operation even if the network is down, and /usr/sbin contained all the rest. On Cygwin, there is no /sbin (historically). Yet another demonstration that <http://cygwin.com/acronyms/#CYNUX>. > Thanks, > Siegfried HTH, Igor -- http://cs.nyu.edu/~pechtcha/ |\ _,,,---,,_ [EMAIL PROTECTED] ZZZzz /,`.-'`' -. ;-;;,_ [EMAIL PROTECTED] |,4- ) )-,_. ,\ ( `'-' Igor Pechtchanski, Ph.D. '---''(_/--' `-'\_) fL a.k.a JaguaR-R-R-r-r-r-.-.-. Meow! "I have since come to realize that being between your mentor and his route to the bathroom is a major career booster." -- Patrick Naughton -- 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/
