X-session on Windows was: SOLVED! Re: SOS! my LInux box is self destructing! (long)

[Brian Witowski]

Thanks.  I'll check it out.

Brian

> -----Original Message-----
> From: linux-users-admin at linux-sxs.org
> [mailto:linux-users-admin at linux-sxs.org]On Behalf Of Tim Wunder
> Sent: Saturday, March 09, 2002 10:44 PM
> To: linux-users at linux-sxs.org
> Subject: Re: SOLVED! Re: SOS! my LInux box is self destructing! (long)
> 
> 
> Previously, Brian Witowski chose to write:
> > Glad to hear you got it.  Its a scary deal, to say the least.  
> One lesson
> > I have learned when working with linux is that when things wig 
> out, look at
> > what's NOT running as much as what is.  This is generally ass-backwards
> > from the Windows mentality.  On more than one occassion I've 
> fought with my
> > system trying to figure out which module or daemon was causing problems
> > when in reality my problems were caused by scripts either not being
> > executable
> > or not having the proper ownership bits set.
> >
> > BTW, I would like to run an X session on my Windows box.  What does it
> > entail?
> >
> >
> 
> Cygwin is your answer.
> IIRC there were instructions on the lycoris community web site 
> pertaining to 
> using Cygwin to do that. Check out http://www.lycoris.org.
> Also check the Cygwin site.
> 
> HTH, 
> Tim
> 
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