On Fri, Dec 10, 2004 at 12:40:37PM -0500, Larry Hall wrote: >At 12:34 PM 12/10/2004, you wrote: >>On Fri, 10 Dec 2004, Brian Dessent wrote: >> >>> Larry Hall wrote: >>> > >>> > The shortcut for all of that process is to run the below: >>> > >>> > mount -f -s -b "<DOS path to Cygwin installation directory>/bin" >>> > "/usr/bin" >>> > mount -f -s -b "<DOS path to Cygwin installation directory>/lib" >>> > "/usr/lib" >>> > mount -f -s -b "<DOS path to Cygwin installation directory>" "/" >>> > >>> > FWIW, following the reporting guidelines at >>> > <http://cygwin.com/problems.html> >>> > would have given the list this information in your initial post. In other >>> > words, there's good stuff at this page. :-) >>> >>> hmm... what if there was a simple shell script added to base-files, such >>> as "mksysmounts" (and corresponding "mkusermounts" too I suppose) that >>> would change any system mounts to user mounts, and vice versa. (Or >>> perhaps a single script with several options.) Then the response to "I >>> installed 'For me only'" would be "just run mksysmounts" instead of >>> "reinstall" or "modify these paths as appropriate and run these >>> commands". >> >>Good idea. I'd call the scripts "remount_as_system" and "remount_as_user" >>or something... And I would also use the >> >>eval "`mount -m | sed ...`" >> >>trick that I posted earlier, instead of hard-coding the paths into the >>scripts. > > >I have no problem with this but if we're offering suggestions on how to >fix the actual problem, then I'd go to the source and change the install >scripts or maybe even 'cygrunsrv' to provide a warning and/or 'fix'. >That should reduce the number of people having problems running service >to only those that don't have permission to do so, in which case we can't >help them anyway.
Maybe we should just get rid of the "install as user" option and only use it when absolutely necessary. Then issue a warning at that point. cgf -- 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/
