X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org To: cygwin@cygwin.com From: =?ISO-8859-1?Q?Ren=E9_Berber?= Subject: Re: Error when attempting to start inetd Date: Tue, 14 Aug 2007 19:36:32 -0500 Lines: 22 Message-ID: References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.6 (Windows/20070728) In-Reply-To: OpenPGP: url=hkp://wwwkeys.pgp.net X-IsSubscribed: yes Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Id: List-Unsubscribe: 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 Michael Grand wrote: > It appears as though "inetd --install-as-service" is either bugged or I > somehow used it incorrectly (although I can't see how that would have > happened, it's pretty straight forward). I reinstalled inetutils and > instead of running "inetd --install-as-service" I ran this command: > 'cygrunsrv -I inetd -p /usr/sbin/inetd -d "CYGWIN inetd"' and I can now > start the inetd service. However, inetd now stops automatically after 7 > seconds. You are missing (at least) one parameter: cygrunsrv -I inetd -p /usr/sbin/inetd --args "-D" -d "CYGWIN inetd" If you don't tell inetd to run in the foreground it will run as a daemon, w= hich is not what cygrunsrv expects (unless you also use -x). --=20 Ren=E9 Berber -- 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/