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Date: Fri, 24 Oct 2003 16:03:09 -0400
From: Jason Tishler <jason AT tishler DOT net>
To: Mark Rissman <rissman AT winresources DOT com>
Cc: Cygwin <cygwin AT cygwin DOT com>
Subject: Re: proftpd
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Mark,

Please post instead of sending private email.

On Fri, Oct 24, 2003 at 11:03:51AM -0700, Mark Rissman wrote:
> Any thoughts as to why proftpd service won't start on WinXP.  I
> followed your article about making it a service.

See the following:

    http://www.catb.org/~esr/faqs/smart-questions.html

> If I try to run manually I get.
> 
> $ /usr/sbin/proftpd
> 255.255.255.255 - unable to set uid to 18, current uid: 11025

The above wont work.  Use the "at trick" if you want to run proftpd
manually:

    http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&lr=&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&q=cygwin+at+trick+localsystem

Jason

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