[TriLUG] cygwin reviews

[Jason Watts]

Thanks,

That is a piece I would have missed right off the bat.

On Mon, Oct 27, 2008 at 5:59 PM, William Sutton <william at trilug.org> wrote:

> When considering Cygwin, keep in mind that the specific utility you want
> will have to run under Cygwin's environment.  That means no standalone
> rsync jobs (you'll have to force any Windows tasks to run rsync through
> Cygwin, something I was unable to do when I attempted to get Apache to
> start on system bootup).
>
> You might also check the Cygwin archives.
>
> FWIW.
>
> William Sutton
>
>
> On Mon, 27 Oct 2008, Kevin Hunter wrote:
>
> > At 5:42pm -0400 on Mon, 27 Oct 2008, Jason Watts wrote:
> >> I am considering doing some rsync stuff between a few windows systems
> and
> >> have heard about cygwin a few times.  Does anyone on here use it and is
> >> there any other/better recommended things to use?  Just asking for
> opinions
> >> before I start installing things on my PC's
> >
> > If it's *just* for rsync stuff, I might suggest to install piecemeal
> > what you need:
> >
> > http://sf.net/projects/rsyncwin32/
> >
> > If you want other *nix tools and functionality, then consider cygwin.
> > Cygwin's great (installing it right now, in fact), but it's not the
> > solution to *every* problem.
> >
> > It's also one of those things that you'll need to use to get a feel for
> > it.  Don't be a PHB!  :-)
> >
> > Kevin
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