Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help AT cygwin DOT com; run by ezmlm List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner AT cygwin DOT com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Date: Fri, 24 Oct 2003 16:03:09 -0400 From: Jason Tishler To: Mark Rissman Cc: Cygwin Subject: Re: proftpd Message-ID: <20031024200250.GA1604@tishler.net> Mail-Followup-To: Mark Rissman , Cygwin References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.4i 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 -- PGP/GPG Key: http://www.tishler.net/jason/pubkey.asc or key servers Fingerprint: 7A73 1405 7F2B E669 C19D 8784 1AFD E4CC ECF4 8EF6 -- 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/