init and agetty packages available for review/upload. (fwd)

[Max Bowsher]

Sergey Okhapkin <sos@prospect.com.ru> wrote:

>>> 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.

What if I want to install init just to look at the included readmes? Or if I
want to install it as a service with slightly different settings? Or simply
dislike my computer doing too much without telling me about it?

For these reasons, and for parity with other Cygwin packages, I strongly
prefer a user-run init-config script along the lines of ssh-host-config, to
a postinstall script.

Max.