Re: running cygwin from file server
On Tue, 22 Aug 2006, Richard Foulk wrote: > Aloha, > > I've installed Cygwin on a file server common to a large number of > clients. This allows various tools and scripts to be run on any > of the clients without cluttering them with their own installations. > > Occasionally it would be nice to obtain a quick interactive shell > environment on one of the clients, including having /tmp, /etc and > others in place on the server partition. Preferrably without leaving > a lasting trace on the client. Perhaps by invoking a single batch file > from the server partition. > > Is there a quick, easy, or already done, way of doing this? Something like this is quick, dirty, and ought to do it: @echo off set SCRIPT_DIR=%~dp0 REM Set up mounts %SCRIPT_DIR%bin\mount -u "%SCRIPT_DIR%" / %SCRIPT_DIR%bin\mount -u "%SCRIPT_DIR%bin" /usr/bin %SCRIPT_DIR%bin\mount -u "%SCRIPT_DIR%lib" /usr/lib REM Start the Cygwin shell call %SCRIPT_DIR%cygwin.bat REM Clean up mounts %SCRIPT_DIR%bin\umount -uA (put it in your Cygwin root on the file server, won't work on Win9x/ME). Note that this will trash the user mounts in your existing Cygwin environment on the client (if there is one). Detecting existing Cygwin user mounts using the mount command is left as an exercise for the reader. Igor -- http://cs.nyu.edu/~pechtcha/ |\ _,,,---,,_[EMAIL PROTECTED] | [EMAIL PROTECTED] ZZZzz /,`.-'`'-. ;-;;,_Igor Peshansky, Ph.D. (name changed!) |,4- ) )-,_. ,\ ( `'-' old name: Igor Pechtchanski '---''(_/--' `-'\_) fL a.k.a JaguaR-R-R-r-r-r-.-.-. Meow! "Las! je suis sot... -Mais non, tu ne l'es pas, puisque tu t'en rends compte." "But no -- you are no fool; you call yourself a fool, there's proof enough in that!" -- Rostand, "Cyrano de Bergerac" -- 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/
Re: running cygwin from file server
On Tue, Aug 22, 2006 at 01:49:43PM -1000, Richard Foulk wrote: >Aloha, > >I've installed Cygwin on a file server common to a large number of >clients. This allows various tools and scripts to be run on any >of the clients without cluttering them with their own installations. > >Occasionally it would be nice to obtain a quick interactive shell >environment on one of the clients, including having /tmp, /etc and >others in place on the server partition. Preferrably without leaving >a lasting trace on the client. Perhaps by invoking a single batch file >from the server partition. > >Is there a quick, easy, or already done, way of doing this? You could just write a .bat file which used the "mount" command to point /tmp and / to appropriate places, run bash, and then umount those settings after bash was run, e.g.: mount -u -f -b c:\windows\temp /tmp mount -u -f -b \\file\server\cygwin / bash umount -u /tmp umount -u / It actually would be possible, without too much work, to make a "transient" type of mount which would not show up in the registry but only exists as long as a user is using cygwin. I might discuss this with Corinna to see if that's something worth pursuing. -- Christopher Faylor spammer? -> [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cygwin Co-Project Leader[EMAIL PROTECTED] TimeSys, Inc. -- 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/
running cygwin from file server
Aloha, I've installed Cygwin on a file server common to a large number of clients. This allows various tools and scripts to be run on any of the clients without cluttering them with their own installations. Occasionally it would be nice to obtain a quick interactive shell environment on one of the clients, including having /tmp, /etc and others in place on the server partition. Preferrably without leaving a lasting trace on the client. Perhaps by invoking a single batch file from the server partition. Is there a quick, easy, or already done, way of doing this? Thanks Richard -- 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/
