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Date: Tue, 31 May 2005 11:34:17 -0400
To: Jason FU <tsfu AT ust DOT hk>, cygwin AT cygwin DOT com
From: Larry Hall <lh-no-personal-replies-please AT cygwin DOT com>
Subject: Re: I have user mounts instead of system ones.
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At 01:13 AM 5/31/2005, you wrote:
>Larry Hall <lh-no-personal-replies-please <at> cygwin.com> writes:
>
>> 
>> Unless you installed these services with a particular user specified (see
>> the '-u' flag of 'cygrunsrv'), none of the services should be using any 
>> user mount.  All services started by 'cygrunsrv', by default, run as 
>> SYSTEM.  If you did install the services (manually) specifying a particular 
>> user account, you'll want to uninstall and reinstall those services and use
>> the default (SYSTEM) account.  The fork error you reported here is not the
>> one I would have expected to see in the case where your services were being
>> run as a certain user but it may be the cause.  You should also look at the
>> log files in /var/log to see if there is more information that will help 
>> you determine what the cause of this error is.  If you need to follow-up
>> with this list again on this issue, please read and follow the problem 
>> reporting guidelines at <http://cygwin.com/problems.html>.
>>
>
>First,
>
>====================================================================
>$ telnet ito2
>Trying 192.168.0.122...
>Connected to ITO2.
>Escape character is '^]'.
>
>CYGWIN_NT-5.1 1.5.16(0.128/4/2) (ITO2) (tty2)
>
>login: 
>====================================================================
>all the services work when I was still using 1.5.16 as shown above.
>
>Second, I didn't do any manual installation of the services but used
>the init-config, exim-config, nfs-server-config and cygserver-config 
>to install the services. And I did it by administrator a/c. I've 
>never done any user mount at all.


User mounts will be created by 'setup.exe' if you select the installation
option "Just for Me".  See:

    <http://cygwin.com/cygwin-ug-net/setup-net.html#id4740599>

If you have them, they were either created this way or explicitly through
your action using 'mount'.  Sorry, I cannot say which.


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