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Discussing NetworkSimplicity (was: Re: SSHD on NT4... (SOLVED!!!))


Robert Collins <rbcollins@cygwin.com> wrote:

> On Sat, 2002-11-16 at 09:00, Christopher Faylor wrote:
>
>> In that vein, can anyone think of other improvements to cygcheck?
>> For instance, maybe it could debug common /etc/passwd or /etc/group
>> problems. Or, maybe it could detect a NetworkSimplicity installation
>> and optionally uninstall it.
>
> I think that a separate 'cygclean' or 'preinstall checker' should
> exist to
> clean bad mounts etc.
>
> It could go into cygcheck but I feel (and can't articulate clearly
> just yet)
> that that would be less clear to newbies.

But newbies wouldn't know to run it. Besides, it needs to be run *before*
setup.exe - so why not just add the relevant code to setup.exe?
All the mount handling code is already there, so it should be fairly simple.

Max.


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