Thanks Larry, that really cleared up a lot for me. Sorry for the dumb questions, I'm still learning my way around windows, and some of the concepts are very foreign to me. I decided to reinstall cygwin, since I hadn't put any work into that install yet. I had one question regarding your last message, though.
You said: >No, not at all. I was referring to '/usr/bin/run' which hides the console >of console apps when run directly from the Windows Explorer, for example. >'cygrunsrv' is similar to 'service' under Linux. It allows you to start, >stop, install, and remove services, among other things. 'ssh-host-config' >uses it. OK then, so cygrunserv would be to run something in a manner similar to the services that I see in 'msconfig', whereas '/usr/bin/run' would just allow me to run cygwin applications from the windows "Run" dialog without having to run the Cygwin Bash shell. Is this correct, or did I miss something? Thanks again for your help, jrtayloriv -- View this message in context: http://www.nabble.com/Running-Cygwin-in-background.-tp15181008p15251310.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/