Mail Archives: cygwin/2004/09/29/13:57:11
Igor Pechtchanski wrote:
>>One thing, when I installed this cygwin I checked the "Install For Just Me"
>>option. Could this have anything to do with it?
>
>
> Bingo. As I was reading your message, I thought "he should check that he
> has system mounts". You've just confirmed that you don't. Re-mount all
> of your mounts as "system", and your services will work.
>
> David, this is definitely an FAQ, but there is nothing in the FAQ about
> services (other than the "how do I install snapshots" entry). Should we
> add something along the lines:
>
> Why don't my services work?
>
> Most Windows services run as the SYSTEM user. If you installed Cygwin
> for "Just Me", the SYSTEM user won't see the mount table. You need to
> re-mount all of your mounts as "system" for services to work.
>
> We could even include the recipe for remounting as system (e.g., from
> <http://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/2003-05/msg00487.html>), or tell them to run
> setup.exe again and select "All Users" on the "Install For" screen (and
> use the "Keep" view, so that nothing gets upgraded accidentally).
Thank you (all) ever so very much.
I had no idea what it took to "re-mount all your mounts as system" but I
did the {eval "`mount -m | sed -e 's/ -u / -s /g' -e 's/$/;/'`"} from
the msg referenced above and it now works like a charm.
(There are some occasional other users of this machine and I don't
really want them to have access to something as powerful as cygwin so
re-installing for all users was definitely not the preferred solution.)
Hmmm. I wonder if this will help another installation where "Task
Scheduler" jobs don't seem to have access to windows network drives.
Worth a try.
Thanks again,
Michael
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