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From: "Dave Korn" <dave.korn@artimi.com>
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Subject: RE: cygrunsrv: error while starting PRNGD service
Date: Wed, 14 Jun 2006 09:33:25 +0100
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On 14 June 2006 06:53, Rich Chase wrote:

> PRNGD does start an "entropy gatherer" program, which returns and
> terminates. Could this child process's termination and return value be
> causing cygrunsrv to 'think' that prngd.exe runs and then terminates? 

  No.

> Suggestions Please?

  Probably a perms problem; is it running as a different user when it's
running as a service?  Does it need to access any files that maybe don't have
rwx perms for world access?

    cheers,
      DaveK
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