Re: cygrunsrv -S cygserver on Cygwin86 does not run

[Tatsuro MATSUOKA <tmacchant2 at yahoo dot co dot jp>]

> From: Marco Atzeri

> To: cygwin
> Cc: 
> Date: 2018/3/14, Wed 15:28
> Subject: Re: cygrunsrv -S cygserver on Cygwin86 does not run
> 
> On 14/03/2018 01:38, Tatsuro MATSUOKA wrote:
>>  Followingng the below
>>  https://cygwin.com/cygwin-ug-net/using-cygserver.html
>>  Start Cygwin shell with admin right.
>>  $ cygserver-config
>>  and /etc/cygserver.conf is created
>>  execute
>>  $ cygrunsrv -S cygserver
>>  On Cygwin86_64
>>  $ ps -a | grep 'cyg'
>>        5428       1    5428       5428  ?             18 08:50:18 
> /usr/bin/cygrunsrv
>>        6152    5428    6152       9680  ?             18 08:50:18 
> /usr/sbin/cygserver
>> 
>>  On Cygwin86
>>  $ ps -a | grep 'cyg'
>>    (nothing appear)
>>  Any suggestions?
>>  Tatsuro
>> 
> 
> Is it same machine ?
> If so the `cygrunsrv -S cygserver` is starting in both case the 64bit version 
> and you can not see it as process in 32bit.
> 
> The problem is due that the services "cygserver" have a unique name
> and the last architecture to install it overwrites any precedent
> version.
> 
> One workaround is to have two different services for the two
> architectures.
> 
> The declaration is located in the registry on
> 
> HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\ControlSet001\services\cygserver
> HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\ControlSet002\services\cygserver
> HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\services\cygserver
> 
> You can rename it as
> 
> HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\ControlSet001\services\cygserver64
> 
> I suggest to rename also the "DisplayName"
> 
> Than install cygserver on 32bit
> To avoid confusion, I than renamed it as
> 
> HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\ControlSet001\services\cygserver32
> 
> Regards
> Marco

Marco

Thanks for your help.

I can execute cygserver for 32 and 64 bit simultaneously.
Tatsuro


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