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 X-Authentication-Warning: slinky.cs.nyu.edu: pechtcha owned process doing -bs Date: Sun, 21 Mar 2004 23:24:58 -0500 (EST) From: Igor Pechtchanski Reply-To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com To: George Hester cc: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Subject: Re: Trailing commandline arguments not allowed. In-Reply-To: Message-ID: References: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII X-Scanned-By: MIMEDefang 2.39 George, Use a little judgement. For example, I run httpd as "nobody" (a new user I created for just that purpose). I also used the "-t manual" cygrunsrv parameter, which means I have to start httpd manually (which suits me fine). You can use "-t auto" instead if you want the service to be started at boot (when, in fact, something like "cygrunsrv -S" does happen). The reason you need "cygrunsrv -S" in the instructions is that simply adding the service, even with "-t auto", won't start it in the current session. As for your apache not working, see if there are any messages in /var/log/httpd.log, /var/log/apache/error_log, and the Windows Event log. It's likely either a permissions problem, or a problem with httpd.conf syntax. As a datapoint, try removing the service and starting httpd from the command line with the exact same flags as cygrunsrv starts it with (i.e., "-F"). This will at least eliminate httpd.conf syntax (if the service starts correctly). For a more definite experiment, try running it from a system-owned shell. Igor On Sun, 21 Mar 2004, George Hester wrote: > Yes I do. > > So I followed the directions. It said "you must run httpd as root initially." > To do this make a change so that I have, " User Guest." > Of course no one in their right mind enables the Guest account > but I went ahead and left my Guest account alone > (the directions did not say to enable that account) and made the entry directed. > > Then the directions say, "To install and start the HTTP daemon as Windows service use > this command: > > $ cygrunsrv -I httpd -d "CYGWIN httpd (apache)" -p /usr/sbin/httpd.exe -a "-F" > $ cygrunsrv -S httpd " > > So I went ahead and did that. The Service is now in my Services applet set to start automatically at boot. > This looks alittle suspicious to me since the $cygrunsrv -S httpd will NOT occur at boot > but hey I'm just following the directions. > > I rebooted and the Apache server was not working. I had to fire up Cygwin off my desktop into > the bash shell and > $/usr/sbin/apachectl start to get the server running. > > Again this is not the normal way of a service at boot. It doesn't work. > > Any other suggestions to get the Apache server to start as a service in the normal way? > > > George Hester > __________________________________ > Igor Pechtchanski wrote: > > > George, > > > > I'm sure you have a /usr/share/doc/Cygwin directory on your system. Look > > for the file named apache-1.3.29-1.README in that directory. Judging by > > your reply, you looked in /usr/share/doc, not in /usr/share/doc/Cygwin. > > Igor > > > > On Sun, 21 Mar 2004, George Hester wrote: > > > > > I don't have a folder by that name. I have folder called > > > apache-1.3.29-eapib and that's it. The puny Readme in that said nothing > > > about running Apache as a service. Thanks anyway. > > > > > > George Hester > > > __________________________________ > > > Igor Pechtchanski wrote: > > > > > > > George, > > > > > > > > Please (re)read /usr/share/doc/Cygwin/apache-1.3.29-1.README, which is the > > > > official documentation for apache on Cygwin. Any other occurrences of > > > > "Cygwin" in the Apache documentation should be considered incidental, and > > > > are subsumed by that README. > > > > Igor > > > > > > > > On Sun, 21 Mar 2004, George Hester wrote: > > > > > > > > > Hi Igor. Crap I messed up in my last post. Please do not read it. It > > > > > will only upset you. > > > > > > > > > > I got the service to exist in the Services applet with: > > > > > > > > > > $cygrunsrv -I Apache -p /usr/sbin/httpd.exe -t auto > > > > > > > > > > but it does not behave as a normal service. A normal service set to > > > > > auto -- http://cs.nyu.edu/~pechtcha/ |\ _,,,---,,_ pechtcha AT cs DOT nyu DOT edu ZZZzz /,`.-'`' -. ;-;;,_ igor AT watson DOT ibm DOT com |,4- ) )-,_. ,\ ( `'-' Igor Pechtchanski, Ph.D. '---''(_/--' `-'\_) fL a.k.a JaguaR-R-R-r-r-r-.-.-. Meow! "I have since come to realize that being between your mentor and his route to the bathroom is a major career booster." -- Patrick Naughton -- 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/