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Date: Wed, 29 Sep 2004 12:05:05 -0500
From: Michael Hipp <Michael AT Hipp DOT com>
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Subject: Re: cygserver won't start
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Brian Dessent wrote:
> Hmm.  You should also check that /etc/cygserver.conf is readable by
> SYSTEM and that /var/log/cygserver.log is readable and writable by
> SYSTEM.  You could always just do "chown SYSTEM:root" and "chmod 644" on
> them if unsure, but I suspect they're fine.

Well, you're on the right track. Adding -d to the cygserver options 
caused Event Viewer to come up with this:

cygserver : PID 800 : starting service `' failed: redirect_fd: open (1, 
/var/log/cygserver.log): 2, No such file or directory.

So I tried (numerous times) setting the perms both from bash and Windows 
to no avail. Tried deleting and re-creating the file. Here is a partial 
transcript:

michael AT michael /var/log
$ rm cygserver.log
rm: remove write-protected file `cygserver.log'? y
$ touch cygserver.log
$ chown SYSTEM:root cygserver.log
$ chmod 644 cygserver.log
$ ls -l cygserver.log
-rw-r--r--    1 SYSTEM   root            0 Sep 29 11:47 cygserver.log
$ cygrunsrv -S cygserver
cygrunsrv: Error starting a service: QueryServiceStatus:  Win32 error 
1062: The service has not been started.
$ chmod 777 cygserver.log
$ cygrunsrv -S cygserver
cygrunsrv: Error starting a service: QueryServiceStatus:  Win32 error 
1062: The service has not been started.

Error message in Event Viewer repeats the "No such file or directory" error.

Would sure appreciate some ideas.

One thing, when I installed this cygwin I checked the "Install For Just 
Me" option. Could this have anything to do with it?

Thanks,
Michael

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