On Tue, 11 Nov 2003, Corinna Vinschen wrote: > On Mon, Nov 10, 2003 at 09:29:54PM -0500, Igor Pechtchanski wrote: > > On Mon, 10 Nov 2003, Brian Dessent wrote: > > > > > [snip] > > > I don't know if it's necessary (but perhaps worth a shot?) to make a > > > link from /etc/hosts to the Windows hosts file, which is in > > > %WINDIR%\system32\drivers\etc for 2k/xp. > > > > > > Brian > > > > The "base-files" package already does that (for Win9x also). > > Igor > > And it's not necessary. Winsock doesn't care for Cygwin's /etc directory. > > Corinna
Depends on how you look at it. Winsock will ignore /etc/hosts on Cygwin. So, for Brian's recipe (of adding the hostname to /etc/hosts) to work, the link *is* necessary. :-) 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/