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 Message-ID: <415AF77C.90008@Hipp.com> Date: Wed, 29 Sep 2004 12:57:16 -0500 From: Michael Hipp User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.7.2) Gecko/20040803 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: cygwin@cygwin.com Subject: Re: cygserver won't start (FAQ alert)[SOLVED] References: <4159D706.6020402@Hipp.com> <4159DAA9.1EDB4121@dessent.net> <4159DCC1.6090506@Hipp.com> <4159E37C.26CF31BD@dessent.net> <4159EAB4.3030708@Hipp.com> <415A0C37.46030DAE@dessent.net> <415AEB41.5050107@Hipp.com> In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-IsSubscribed: yes Igor Pechtchanski wrote: >>One thing, when I installed this cygwin I checked the "Install For Just Me" >>option. Could this have anything to do with it? > > > Bingo. As I was reading your message, I thought "he should check that he > has system mounts". You've just confirmed that you don't. Re-mount all > of your mounts as "system", and your services will work. > > David, this is definitely an FAQ, but there is nothing in the FAQ about > services (other than the "how do I install snapshots" entry). Should we > add something along the lines: > > Why don't my services work? > > Most Windows services run as the SYSTEM user. If you installed Cygwin > for "Just Me", the SYSTEM user won't see the mount table. You need to > re-mount all of your mounts as "system" for services to work. > > We could even include the recipe for remounting as system (e.g., from > ), or tell them to run > setup.exe again and select "All Users" on the "Install For" screen (and > use the "Keep" view, so that nothing gets upgraded accidentally). Thank you (all) ever so very much. I had no idea what it took to "re-mount all your mounts as system" but I did the {eval "`mount -m | sed -e 's/ -u / -s /g' -e 's/$/;/'`"} from the msg referenced above and it now works like a charm. (There are some occasional other users of this machine and I don't really want them to have access to something as powerful as cygwin so re-installing for all users was definitely not the preferred solution.) Hmmm. I wonder if this will help another installation where "Task Scheduler" jobs don't seem to have access to windows network drives. Worth a try. Thanks again, Michael -- 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/