AW: Starting Squid upon bootup in Windows 2000

[Michael Bunk]

> Hi once again. I had installed SSH on cygwin and it starts by default 
> upon startup in my Windows 2000 box.
> I guess it got in the startup directory because I installed it from 
> cygwin setup/ports.

It doesn't use any Startup Folder, but ssh-host-config installs ssh as a
service, which is started automatically.

> Is there an easy way to start daemons such as Squid or Bind which were 
> downloaded and installed from source?

Take a look at cygrunsrv.  It is used by ssh-host-config.  It allows to
install almost any application as a service.

Michael



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