User mountable network shares
Create entry in /etc/fstab:
\\servername\sharename /mount/directory/name drvfs defaults,user 0 0
SSH-Agent
Run ssh-agent for the first opened shell:
## SSH-Agent handling # get the latest created socket file, old ones are not removed automatically! socket_file=$(ls -t $(find /tmp/ssh* -iname "agent.*") | head -1) # get pid of a possibly running ssh-agent agent_pid=$(pidof ssh-agent) # if there is an agent running make the socket file known, start one otherwise if [ ! -z "$agent_pid" ]; then export SSH_AUTH_SOCK=$socket_file else eval $(ssh-agent) fi
Start cron daemon via Task Service
Allow non-root users to start the daemon via sudo:
sudo visudo # add the next line at the end of the file %sudo ALL=NOPASSWD: /etc/init.d/cron start
Open the shell:startup location and create a shortcut to start cron after the Windows login:
C:\Windows\System32\wsl.exe sudo /etc/init.d/cron start
Attention: This invokes the distribution which is set as default. This can be changed by running wslconfig:
wslconfig /s Ubuntu-18.04