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- Control Panel > Programs and Features > Turn Windows Features On Or Off
- Enable “Windows Subsystem for Linux”
- Restart
- Microsoft store > search for “Debian” > Get (need to disconnect VPN or create an account)
- Launch from the start menu
- Fix screen:
The directory /var/run/screen/ is the socket directory for screen.
Fortunately, screen reads a environment variable SCREENDIR to get an alternative socket directory.
So to work around it, you can create a directory, such as ~/.screen:
mkdir ~/.screen && chmod 700 ~/.screen
and export the SCREENDIR to point to that directory:
export SCREENDIR=$HOME/.screen
You can also put this line into your ~/.bashrc so that it will also take effect afterwards.
Samba
You can't automatically access Windows network drives, even if they are mapped to a letter (20.6.20).
/etc/fstab:
\\alan\huge /mnt/y drvfs user,uid=1000,gid=1000 0 0
This ought to automount when WSL is fired up, but something[TM] needs to start it if you want to run rsync from cron.
''cron''
Add to the end of /etc/sudoers:
%sudo ALL=NOPASSWD: /etc/init.d/cron start
Roughly, follow https://blog.snowme34.com/post/schedule-tasks-using-crontab-on-windows-10-with-wsl/index.html although I think there was a lot of fighting to create the link:
Next, type shell:startup in the Run and explorer will open the startup folder.
Create a shortcut to wsl.exe and edit the properties as following:
C:\Windows\System32\wsl.exe sudo /etc/init.d/cron start