Running Cygserver

Before executing the command to run the Cygwin server, we need to configure Cygserver and install it as a service. To do so, you need to run the cygserver.conf script on the Terminal. The following is the output you get by running the script:

$ ./bin/cygserver-config
Generating /etc/cygserver.conf file
Warning: The following function requires administrator privileges!
Do you want to install cygserver as service? yes

The service has been installed under LocalSystem account.
To start it, call `net start cygserver' or `cygrunsrv -S cygserver'.

Further configuration options are available by editing the configuration
file /etc/cygserver.conf. Please read the inline information in that
file carefully. The best option for the start is to just leave it alone.

Basic Cygserver configuration finished. Have fun!

Now, Cygserver will have been configured and installed as a service. The next step is to run the server. To run Cygserver, you need to use the following command:

$ net start cygserver
The CYGWIN cygserver service is starting.
The CYGWIN cygserver service was started successfully.

Now that Cygserver is running, we can make a recipe to demonstrate IPC using shared memory and message queues.