Re: cygwin shell as a service

[Larry Hall <lh-no-personal-replies-please at cygwin dot com>]

At 02:55 PM 8/3/2004, you wrote:

<snip>


>The reason for this whole mess is to provide a linux-like environment for my windows game
>servers. I noticed that if I run sshd the usual way, as a windows service with cygrunsrv,
>that the GUI windows of the applications are not "drawn" anywhere if they are launched from
>ssh. They are "drawn" on the desktop if I launch them from the cygwin console though. I
>briefly investigated SFU (services for unix), and I found this blurb about "window stations"
>on that site: http://www.interopsystems.com/tools/FAQ.htm#8
>
>I assume this non-drawing issue is the same issue present with SFU (and therefore a
>microsoft problem rather than a cygwin/SFU problem).


You might want to investigate 'cygrunsrv -i'.


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