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: Alder Subject: Re: cygserver service won't start Date: Sat, 11 Sep 2004 09:54:54 -0700 Lines: 34 Message-ID: References: <20040909080829.GC2953@cygbert.vinschen.de> <20040910080758.GE468@cygbert.vinschen.de> <20040911123916.GA8906@cygbert.vinschen.de> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: d66-183-164-211.bchsia.telus.net User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.7.2) Gecko/20040803 In-Reply-To: <20040911123916.GA8906@cygbert.vinschen.de> X-IsSubscribed: yes Corinna Vinschen wrote:: > 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. On a perfect platform, perhaps, but like I said, I really had to add it because without it there a Windows dialog would pop up when I ran cygserver telling me that 'Cygwin1.dll' could not be found. That was also true on my previous installation, and one of the reasons I thought it best to reinstall. Regards, Alder > > > Corinna > -- 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/