Mail Archives: cygwin/2005/02/28/03:15:18
Thanks, Brian!
Making sure cygwin is set up for "everybody" seemed to do the trick.
All services ran fine after a reboot.
For the record: no events of interest appeared in the event log (only
the Windows error message in the subject). No output was produced in
/var/log.
Cheers,
Rob
Brian Dessent wrote:
> Robert Schmidt wrote:
>
>
>>On all my PCs, I've installed a few services using cygrunsrv (cron,
>>Privoxy, ...). On my newest laptop (a brand new Dell M70, fresh XP+SP2
>>and basic cygwin 1.5.11 installation), none of the cygrunsrv services
>>will start.
>
>
> Check the logs in /var/log. For a service 'foo' you should have
> /var/log/foo.log that will contain stdout and/or stderr of the process.
> Also check the Event Log for messages about the service.
>
> From your cygcheck output your group is "mkgroup_l_d" which means you
> don't have a valid /etc/group file -- this is a hint that you need to
> run "mkgroup -l -d > /etc/group" or similar. Check the users guide.
>
> From your cygcheck output your mounts are all "user" mounts and not
> "system" mounts, so they will be invisible to services, which log in
> with different credentials than normal users (i.e. LOCALSYSTEM). "user"
> mounts and services do not mix well. I think there's an entry in the
> FAQ on how to convert them using sed and mount, or you could just select
> "everybody" next time you run setup.
>
> Brian
>
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