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Re: Running Linux Application on Windows


On Tue, Nov 25, 2008 at 11:22 AM, Christopher Faylor wrote:
> On Tue, Nov 25, 2008 at 04:24:51AM -0700, Warren Young wrote:
>> Emil Tan wrote:
>>> Is the documentation kinda wrong?
>>
>> Yes, but that's something you'll have to take up with the people who
>> maintain that file, presumably on the Samhain mailing list.  Whoever wrote
>> it doesn't realize that /usr, /home, etc aren't created in c:\, they're
>> mount(1) aliases for directories that actually live in c:\cygwin, by
>> default.
>
> Right.  Just to be clear if that is what the documentation tells you to
> do it is frighteningly wrong.

It doesn't seem that that is what the documentation tells you to do:

$ ./configure --enable-xml-log=yes --with-tmp-dir=/usr/local/tmp
--with-config-file=/usr/local/etc/samhainrc
--with-log-file=/usr/local/log/samhain.log
--with-pid-file=/usr/local/var/samhain.pid
--with-state-dir=/usr/local/var

That seems sane to me; I think the OP's explanation/understanding was
just wrong....

OTOH, that page also has instructions for a "Cygwin minimal
installation procedure to run samhain" that feature instructions to
copy cygwin1.dll and cygminires.dll to the windows\system32 directory,
and that definitely *is* bad advice.

~Matt

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