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Re: inetd servers went wrong after upgrading cygwin



Wu Yongwei wrote:
> 
> So you do not define am environment variable CYGWIN, do you?
> 
> At least on this problem it seems I am not the only one affected. Mr John
> Vincent, as he said in his posting, had this problem too. My test shows
> clearly that after defining a CYGWIN environment variable with the value
> "binmode ntsec tty" and rebooting the computer the inetd works flawlessly. I
> have the registry key
> 
> [HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Cygnus Solutions\Cygwin\Program Options]
> "C:\\cygwin\\usr\\sbin\\inetd.exe"="binmode ntsec tty"
> 
> defined and it used to work.
> 

I can confirm that you have to set the CYGWIN variable globally. It is
no longer sufficient to have the registry key to get inetd to work as it
used to under Cygwin 1.3.9.

Cheers

Don Sharp

> Some additional information in case anyone need it:
> 
> * Microsoft Windows 2000 [Version 5.00.2195]
> * Cygwin 1.3.10-1, cygwin1.dll dated 2002-02-26
> * inetutils 1.3.2-18
> 
> Since you think it should work, it seems a bug. Should I report it somewhere
> other than this list?
> 
> Best regards,
> 
> Wu Yongwei
> 
> --- Original Message from Christopher Faylor ---
> 
> On Sun, Jul 07, 2002 at 05:51:58PM +0800, Wu Yongwei wrote:
> >It seems setting the "HKLM\Software\Cygnus Solutions\Cygwin\Program
> Options"
> >registry key, as mentioned in /usr/doc/Cygwin/inetutils-1.3.2.README, does
> >not work now.
> 
> It certainly works fine for me.
> 
> >Why?
> 
> Standard response.  Everybody together now!
> 
> cgf
> 
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