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X-Authentication-Warning: slinky.cs.nyu.edu: pechtcha owned process doing -bs
Date: Tue, 11 Mar 2003 12:03:29 -0500 (EST)
From: Igor Pechtchanski <pechtcha AT cs DOT nyu DOT edu>
Reply-To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com
To: Max Bowsher <maxb AT ukf DOT net>
cc: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com,
   Guillaume Devoyon <guillaume DOT devoyon AT integro-networks DOT com>
Subject: RE: init.d
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On Tue, 11 Mar 2003, Max Bowsher wrote:

> On Tue, 11 Mar 2003, Igor Pechtchanski wrote:
>
> > IIRC, cygrunsrv expects the program it's starting to fork
> > itself and exit with an appropriate return code within a certain time
> > window.  Otherwise it times out and says "the service could not be started
> > proprely".  sshd and httpd (and some others as well) have an option to
> > fork and exit -- see if webmin has one as well.
>
> I think you've got that backwards. Cygrunsrv expects the process to *not*
> fork and exit, and the sshd/httpd/rsyncd options are for *preventing*
> the usual fork and exit.
>
> Max.

Yep, Max, you're right.  Sorry...
Still, Guillaume, see if webmin has flags that would make it behave as
cygrunsrv expects.
	Igor
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