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Re: init and agetty packages available for review/upload. (fwd)
- From: "Sergey Okhapkin" <sos at prospect dot com dot ru>
- To: "Joshua Daniel Franklin" <joshua at iocc dot com>
- Cc: <joshuadfranklin at yahoo dot com>, <cygwin-apps at cygwin dot com>
- Date: Sat, 9 Nov 2002 16:35:34 -0500
- Subject: Re: init and agetty packages available for review/upload. (fwd)
- References: <Pine.LNX.4.44.0211091307300.3862-100000@iocc.com>
> >
> > Sshd can run as stand-alone service or from inetd. Init supposed to run
as a
> > service only. I don't expect somebody need to run init from something
other
> > than cygrunsrv:-)
>
> Well, yes, but just because someone downloads init (for example, to
> run agetty) doesn't mean they want it running every time they start
> up thier computer!
>
This case the user can change the service startup type to "manual". I
believe most of init's users will run it as auto-startup service.
Sergey Okhapkin
Somerset, NJ