can user add his own service in cygwin inetd?

[Larry Hall (RFK Partners, Inc)]

Sorry, I'm not an inetd expert.  I'd be stuck looking at the available 
documents too.  It's not immediately obvious to me that a perl program 
wouldn't be able to be run from inetd but then again, I don't know what
you're doing.  If you do exactly what you've done on Linux and it works
there but not with Cygwin, well, then I guess that means there's some
difference that will need to be tracked down.  If you're interested in 
doing so, you could start with invoking inetd with the -d flag.  That
may shed some light.

Larry


At 07:11 PM 12/10/2002, Hua Wang wrote:

>See if I can make my question clear -- if cygwin inetd can launch a perl (as
>a daemon) program? I can launch a .exe program without problem. If I move my
>perl program to a linux machine, it runs fine.
>I suspect that cygwin inetd just like exceed inetd -- couldn't launch a perl
>program, but I want someone to verify.
>Also I couldn't find any error message in Event viewer when it failed. Do
>you have any idea where I can find a log file?
>Sorry to bother you again, but I didn't get any other response.
>
>Thanks millions
>Hua
>
>    > -----Original Message-----
>    > From: lhall@pop.ma.ultranet.com [mailto:lhall@pop.ma.ultranet.com]
>    > Sent: Tuesday, December 10, 2002 3:34 PM
>    > To: hua@compasdb.dr.avaya.com; lhall@rfk.com; cygwin@cygwin.com
>    > Subject: RE: can user add his own service in cygwin inetd?
>    >
>    >
>    > Well, I'm assuming the program you're trying to launch is created
>    > to run as a service/daemon.  If it's not, that would be a big part
>    > of the problem.  If it is, beyond the obvious task of making
>    > sure that the environment is correct for the program in question,
>    > I can't offer any insights to your problem.  Sorry.  You may be
>    > stuck with a debugging task.
>    >
>    > Larry
>    >
>    > Original Message:
>    > -----------------
>    > From: Hua Wang hua@compasdb.dr.avaya.com
>    > Date: Tue, 10 Dec 2002 15:08:11 -0700
>    > To: lhall@rfk.com, cygwin@cygwin.com
>    > Subject: RE: can user add his own service in cygwin inetd?
>    >
>    >
>    > Larry,
>    > Thanks for your help. After I add new service in etc/services and
>    > inetd.conf, inetd seems trying to launch the service I just
>    > added. But it
>    > got "Connection closed by foreign host" msg immediately.
>    > What I tried to do is launch a perl program. Exceed couldn't
>    > do it, that is
>    > why I am seeking something to replace exceed inetd which could
>    > launch a perl
>    > program on windows. Do you know if cygwin inetd can launch a
>    > perl program?
>    > Thanks again for your help.
>    > Hua
>    >
>    >    > -----Original Message-----
>    >    > From: lhall@pop.ma.ultranet.com [mailto:lhall@pop.ma.ultranet.com]
>    >    > Sent: Tuesday, December 10, 2002 1:50 PM
>    >    > To: hua@compasdb.dr.avaya.com; cygwin@cygwin.com
>    >    > Subject: RE: can user add his own service in cygwin inetd?
>    >    >
>    >    >
>    >    > I'd recommend looking at the documentation for inetd (i.e.
>    >    > 'man inetd').
>    >    > It's also woth reviewing /usr/doc/Cygwin/inetutils-1.3.2.README.
>    >    > This should give you the information you need.
>    >    >
>    >    > Larry
>    >    >
>    >    >
>    >    > Original Message:
>    >    > -----------------
>    >    > From: Hua Wang hua@compasdb.dr.avaya.com
>    >    > Date: Tue, 10 Dec 2002 13:41:27 -0700
>    >    > To: cygwin@cygwin.com
>    >    > Subject: can user add his own service in cygwin inetd?
>    >    >
>    >    >
>    >    > Does any one know if one can add own service in cygwin inetd
>    >    > like exceed
>    >    > does? if it does, how to do it?
>    >    >
>    >    > Any help are great appreciated.
>    >    >
>    >    > Hua
>    >    >
>    >    >
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