On Tue, Nov 25, 2008 at 01:27:24PM -0500, Matt Wozniski wrote: >On Tue, Nov 25, 2008 at 11:22 AM, Christopher Faylor wrote: >> On Tue, Nov 25, 2008 at 04:24:51AM -0700, Warren Young wrote: >>> Emil Tan wrote: >>>> Is the documentation kinda wrong? >>> >>> Yes, but that's something you'll have to take up with the people who >>> maintain that file, presumably on the Samhain mailing list. Whoever wrote >>> it doesn't realize that /usr, /home, etc aren't created in c:\, they're >>> mount(1) aliases for directories that actually live in c:\cygwin, by >>> default. >> >> Right. Just to be clear if that is what the documentation tells you to >> do it is frighteningly wrong. > >It doesn't seem that that is what the documentation tells you to do: > >$ ./configure --enable-xml-log=yes --with-tmp-dir=/usr/local/tmp >--with-config-file=/usr/local/etc/samhainrc >--with-log-file=/usr/local/log/samhain.log >--with-pid-file=/usr/local/var/samhain.pid >--with-state-dir=/usr/local/var > >That seems sane to me; I think the OP's explanation/understanding was >just wrong.... > >OTOH, that page also has instructions for a "Cygwin minimal >installation procedure to run samhain" that feature instructions to >copy cygwin1.dll and cygminires.dll to the windows\system32 directory, >and that definitely *is* bad advice.
I keep meaning to add code to cygwin to cause it to abort when run from windows/system32... 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/