Hey guys, (Though my problem is about an application: Samhain, but my question is a rather general cygwin question)
I'm thinking of playing around with some open source security application - and I've shortlisted both Prelude and Samhain HIMS. But I'm not really using Prelude as an IDS, but using it as a concentrator for my log files. Anyway, here's my question... Everything is smooth and nice on Linux, but I'm kinda confuse when I wanna use Windows OS as one of my client machine in the network. There is actually a brief documentation on how to get Samhain run on Windows at: http://la-samhna.de/samhain/HOWTO-samhain-on-windows.html HOWTO-samhain-on-windows . Something I do not understand is... all my "./configure && make && make install" is done over in my /cygdrive/c/cygwin... Why do I still need to create a bunch of empty directories (/usr/local/sbin, /usr/local/var, /usr/local/tmp, /usr/local/log, /usr/local/etc) at /cygdrive/c Then it tells me to create a service (using Windows registry) linking to an empty directory /cygdrive/c/usr/local/sbin... Is the documentation kinda wrong? LOL.. Is it all the while whenever it mention /usr/local/* it means /cygdrive/c instead of /cygdrive/c/cygwin ? And why if I wanna run the application, we must first create a service first? Is it some kind of permission that have to be set in a Windows environment? It is my first time installing Linux application on a Windows platform. Please advice. Cheers, Tan -- View this message in context: http://www.nabble.com/Running-Linux-Application-on-Windows-tp20677518p20677518.html Sent from the Cygwin list mailing list archive at Nabble.com. -- 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/
