Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin@cygwin.com To: cygwin@cygwin.com From: Andrew DeFaria Subject: Re: simple newbie init question Date: Wed, 21 Jan 2004 17:30:05 -0800 Lines: 33 Message-ID: References: <000001c3e077$0a725160$353d520a@EROUSE> <20040122000932.GA26599@redhat.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.6b) Gecko/20031205 Thunderbird/0.4 In-Reply-To: <20040122000932.GA26599@redhat.com> Christopher Faylor wrote: > On Wed, Jan 21, 2004 at 03:54:14PM -0800, Andrew DeFaria wrote: > >> Edward W. Rouse wrote: >> >>> Yes. Here is the appropriate line from "cygcheck -svr". >>> >>> base-files 2.6-1 >>> >>> However I do not have the symlinks you mention. Can I manually create >>> them using ln or do I need to reinstall the base-files? >>> Ed. >> >> You've installed inetd as a service right? Have you tried adding >> C:\Cygwin\bin to your Windows System Environment Variable PATH and >> rebooting? > > > How is that going to get him the /etc/services symlink? It won't. However I don't think his problem is necessarily involved in locating /etc/services. Actually I don't believe he was clear at all as to what the exact problem was when he attempted to start the CVS server. I added my comment because inetd runs as a service, thus outside of your normal login and sometimes some services have a problem locating cygwin1.dll. -- I ask people why they have deer heads on their walls. They always say because it's such a beautiful animal. I think my mother is attractive, but I only have photographs of her. -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/