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 Subject: Antwort: Re: mutt and ssmtp on Cygwin on Windows Server 2003 'child exited 127' To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Message-ID: From: gert_de_boer AT ch DOT schindler DOT com Date: Mon, 24 May 2004 11:24:45 +0200 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII X-IsSubscribed: yes Hello Mr Ford, Thanks for your reaction. It seemed so close to my understanding of the problem, but alas, it still does not work. I assume you meant this part of the openssh.README: Important note for Windows 2003 Server users: --------------------------------------------- 2003 Server has a funny new feature. When starting services under SYSTEM account, these services have nearly all user rights which SYSTEM holds... except for the "Create a token object" right, which is needed to allow public key authentication :-( There's no way around this, except for creating a substitute account which has the appropriate privileges. Basically, this account should be member of the administrators group, plus it should have the following user rights: Create a token object Logon as a service Replace a process level token Increase Quota I did not find an 'increase quota' right, I assumed 'adjust memory for process' Regards, Gert de Boer Systemadministration and Development FI-TE Schindler Lifts Switzerland Ltd Zugerstrasse 13 CH-6030 Ebikon Telephone: +41 (0)41 4453010 mailto: gert_de_boer AT ch DOT schindler DOT com Brian Ford Kopie: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Thema: Re: mutt and ssmtp on Cygwin on Windows Server 2003 'child exited 127' 05/19/2004 04:07 PM Bitte antworten an cygwin On Wed, 19 May 2004, gert_de_boer wrote: > Somehow I do not succeed in configuring mutt or ssmtp with Cygwin on a > Windows 2003 server. > > As an example of what happens: > > $ echo hallo | mutt -s new_test myname AT mycompany DOT com > Error sending message, child exited 127 (Exec error.). > Could not send the message. > > The error is exactly the same as when I have a wrong 'sendmail' defined in > my .muttrc on a server where cygwin runs without any problem. However I > defined it correct: > set sendmail=/usr/sbin/ssmtp > > Executing ssmtp on its own delivers an empty mail at myname AT mycompany DOT com, > so the error is not there. > > It all works without any problem on Windows XP and Windows 2000. > > So it seems something has changed in Windows 2003: for some reason mutt > cannot trigger ssmtp to do its job. > > Something similar seems to happen between the CYGWIN cron service and the > scripts it is supposed to start. Nothing happens, but if I look in the > eventviewer I see the following order of events: > > PID 3188: (myaccount) RELOAD (tabs/myaccount) > > PID 3392: (myaccount) CMD (/home/myaccount/bin/test_mail.sh) > > PID 3392: (CRON) error (can't switchuser context) > > So it is just an idea of mine that somehow (some) programs are not able to > start others, due to some rigid security settings. > > BTW, all the above is done as with a group account with administrator > rights on the server. Please read the Windows 2003 Server section of /usr/share/doc/Cygwin/openssh.README and see if that helps. I know it sounds weird, but trust me, it is relevant. -- Brian Ford Senior Realtime Software Engineer VITAL - Visual Simulation Systems FlightSafety International the best safety device in any aircraft is a well-trained pilot... -- 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/