I am using cygwin on windows to connect to my linux boxes for ages. works pretty simple, sometimes xhost + should be issued on the server side though in order to allow X connections. that's pretty much it for me. On Mon, Oct 19, 2009 at 1:27 PM, Jared Still <jkstill@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > It seems the windows servers are going to proliferate here. (sigh) > > There are a number of you that are regularly using Cygwin on windows > servers so as to have a decent scripting and cmd line environment. > > While I have used Cygwin casually on my own laptop for use with > Oracle, I have never made serious use of it. > > If you have any tips to offer (ie. hard learned lessons) for using Cygwin > it would be appreciated. If I learn enough I can consolidate it into > a blog entry. > > Some examples of what I am looking for: > > How do you set up the PATH? (linux style or DOS style directories in > PATH?) > > Any tricks to setting up the Oracle ENV variables? > > etc... > > Thanks, > > Jared Still > Certifiable Oracle DBA and Part Time Perl Evangelist > Oracle Blog: http://jkstill.blogspot.com > Home Page: http://jaredstill.com > >