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Date: Wed, 31 Oct 2001 10:32:33 -0800 (PST)
From: Jean-Marc Eurin <jmeurin AT yahoo DOT com>
Subject: Re: export vs ntsec (was chmod/chown/gdb/cygrunsrc does not work)
To: Peter Buckley <peter DOT buckley AT cportcorp DOT com>
Cc: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com
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Hi Peter,

My PATH (in W2K) does include c:\cygwin\bin. I could
start the service by hand in a windows command prompt.
But for some reason, when CYGWIN contains 'export'
this PATH is not exported to the service started by
cygrunsrv.

Jean-Marc

--- Peter Buckley <peter DOT buckley AT cportcorp DOT com> wrote:
>  From the inetutils-1.3.2.README-
>    - The system environment variable PATH must
> contain the path
>      to the directory which contains the
> cygwin1.dll.
> 
> 
> HTH,
> Peter
> 
> Jean-Marc Eurin wrote:
> 
> > Hi,
> > 
> > I think I actually found the root cause of my
> various
> > problems: setting the 'export' flag in the CYGWIN
> > variable on W2K (i.e. with ntsec) seems a very bad
> > idea.
> > 
> > I removed it (now CYGWIN=ntsec), rebooted, and
> now:
> > - chown & chmod work. 
> > - gdb does not crash (see message on 10/26/01)
> > - I can run services with cygrunsrv. The symptom
> here
> > was that when starting the service (--start),
> Windows
> > would complain that it could not find cygwin1.dll
> in
> > the PATH.
> > 
> > Hopefully this will solve some of the issues seen
> in
> > this list :-)
> > 
> > Jean-Marc
> > 
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> -- 
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> Your mouse has moved.
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> effect.
> Reboot now?  [OK]
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