Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@sourceware.cygnus.com; run by ezmlm List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@sources.redhat.com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin@sources.redhat.com Message-ID: <3B82BB27.300267BD@etr-usa.com> Date: Tue, 21 Aug 2001 13:48:55 -0600 From: Warren Young Organization: -ENOENT X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.77 [en] (Windows NT 5.0; U) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: cygwin@cygwin.com Subject: Re: Cygwin's CVS - can it be a network server? References: <8BFEC206D292D311921500508B0BCB8D08791E06@msgstl01.sbc.com> <20010818220509.C536@cygbert.vinschen.de> <7434-Tue21Aug2001101903+0100-starksb@ebi.ac.uk> <3B828F69.61796D0E@etr-usa.com> <20010821131605.C22255@redhat.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Christopher Faylor wrote: > > Actually, maybe just a symbolic link in /etc to the correct services > file would be better. I came to that conclusion too, and tried it. It does work, and it's more natural than my original solution. > It would have to be added as a post-install script, though, obviously. How does Cygwin's post-install system work? If there's a Bourne shell script you can modify, add this: if [ "$OS" = "Windows_NT" ] then servdir="`cygpath -u $SYSTEMROOT`/SYSTEM32/DRIVERS/ETC" else servdir="`cygpath -u $WINDIR`/SERVICES" fi ln -s $servdir/SERVICES /etc/services -- = Warren -- ICBM Address: 36.8274040 N, 108.0204086 W, alt. 1714m -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Bug reporting: http://cygwin.com/bugs.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/