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 Date: Sat, 11 Sep 2004 14:39:16 +0200 From: Corinna Vinschen To: cygwin@cygwin.com Subject: Re: cygserver service won't start Message-ID: <20040911123916.GA8906@cygbert.vinschen.de> Reply-To: cygwin@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com References: <20040909080829.GC2953@cygbert.vinschen.de> <20040910080758.GE468@cygbert.vinschen.de> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.2i On Sep 10 09:47, Alder wrote: > Corinna, > > I don't know if this is relevant, but I have to add the "/bin" directory > to the cygrunsrv command line in the /bin/cygserver-config file in order > to avoid Windows failing to find the 'cygwin1.dll". So, the line I have is: > > if ! cygrunsrv -I cygserver -d "CYGWIN cygserver" \ > -p /usr/sbin/cygserver -f "Shared memory manager" \ > -2 /var/log/cygserver.err -e PATH="/bin:$PATH" Did you know that cygrunsrv adds /bin to $PATH by itself before trying to run the inferior process for the very reason to find cygwin1.dll? Adding it explicitely is really unnecessary. Just to be sure, I tried it again on my machine and it works fine. Corinna -- Corinna Vinschen Please, send mails regarding Cygwin to Cygwin Project Co-Leader mailto:cygwin@cygwin.com Red Hat, Inc. -- 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/