cygcheck improvements

[Christopher Faylor]

On Wed, Nov 02, 2005 at 12:20:22PM -0800, Brian Dessent wrote:
>Christopher Faylor wrote:
>
>> What other kind of common things could cygcheck be testing for?
>
>I was thinking that instead of just reporting the current value of
>$PATH, it would be handy to also report on the Windows/Registry value of
>$PATH.  That way, you can tell if Cygwin is being added to the path in
>cygwin.bat or if the person actually added it to their Windows
>environment.  I forget exactly why this came up but I remember thinking
>it would have been useful more than once when trying to help someone.
>
>I guess it could also explicitly check /etc/passwd and /etc/group, even
>though at the moment you can sort of tell if this has been done by
>looking at the output of 'id'.
>
>The "pending file replacements" idea is a good one too, as is the
>"incomplete postinstall script" idea.  I'm not sure if the "SYSTEM user
>has mounts" issue would come up enough to warrant checking for it,
>because I can't really think of how that would come to happen.  It might
>be good to check if /usr/bin is a user mount and there are services,
>then print a warning.  This is something that you can determine by
>looking at the output already but having it as an explicit warning makes
>it more clear, especially for the user who isn't aware of the problem.

Given the message that follows this one on the list, should we
be issuing a helpful message if there are network shares and services
being used on the same system, too?

cgf

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