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 X-Authentication-Warning: slinky.cs.nyu.edu: pechtcha owned process doing -bs Date: Wed, 9 Jun 2004 21:02:28 -0400 (EDT) From: Igor Pechtchanski Reply-To: cygwin@cygwin.com To: Jeff Hardy cc: cygwin@cygwin.com Subject: Re: cygrunsrv fails to start init In-Reply-To: <20040610002837.86235.qmail@web11505.mail.yahoo.com> Message-ID: References: <20040610002837.86235.qmail@web11505.mail.yahoo.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII X-Scanned-By: MIMEDefang 2.39 On Wed, 9 Jun 2004, Jeff Hardy wrote: > Hi, I have installed cygrunsrv on my win2k box (cygwin > is already installed) and when I try to start init > with the initscripts config script I get the following > error in the event log: > > The description for Event ID ( 0 ) in Source ( init ) > cannot be found. The local computer may not have the > necessary registry information or message DLL files to > display messages from a remote computer. The following > information is part of the event: init : PID 1948 : > starting service `' failed: redirect_fd: open (1, > /var/log/init.log): 2, No such file or directory. > > cygrunsrv seems to be creating the /var/log directory > directly in my c: drive instead of under the cygwin > directory in my C: drive. > > Any suggestions? Here's one: > Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html In the absense of your install information, here's an (educated) WAG: you have user mounts instead of system ones (i.e., you installed for "Just Me" instead of "All Users"). See . Igor > thanks, > -jeff > > PS just for the heck of it I tried to start xinetd > with the same sygrunsrv command line and got the > identical error message above, but with init.log > replaced by xinetd.log. -- http://cs.nyu.edu/~pechtcha/ |\ _,,,---,,_ pechtcha@cs.nyu.edu ZZZzz /,`.-'`' -. ;-;;,_ igor@watson.ibm.com |,4- ) )-,_. ,\ ( `'-' Igor Pechtchanski, Ph.D. '---''(_/--' `-'\_) fL a.k.a JaguaR-R-R-r-r-r-.-.-. Meow! "I have since come to realize that being between your mentor and his route to the bathroom is a major career booster." -- Patrick Naughton -- 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/