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: Mon, 12 Jul 2004 11:47:55 -0400 (EDT) From: Igor Pechtchanski Reply-To: cygwin@cygwin.com To: "W. Borgert" cc: cygwin@cygwin.com Subject: Re: cygwin telnetd/xinetd and non-cygwin Python: no interaction In-Reply-To: <1089641837.40f29d6d8ea25@webmail.in-berlin.de> Message-ID: References: <1089641837.40f29d6d8ea25@webmail.in-berlin.de> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII X-Scanned-By: MIMEDefang 2.39 On Mon, 12 Jul 2004, W. Borgert wrote: > Hi, > > I managed to telnet into my XP box using cygwin xinetd, but if I run > Python (not the cygwin variant, but the stock www.python.org > installer) I get no interaction at all. Running the same Python > variant in the cygwin bash without telnet session, there is no > problem. Is this a known limitation? Did I do something wrong? Do > I have to tweak the CYGWIN variable? Many thanks in advance! > > Cheers, WB A WAG: some Windows programs may require interaction with desktop, even for non-graphical tasks. Check out the "-i" flag to cygrunsrv, or the "Allow service to interact with desktop" checkbox in the Windows service properties dialog. Igor -- 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/