Unable to bring up netscape as any other user

[Menon, Girish (MED, WIPRO-GE MED)]

Great. It worked.

Now I have a slightly differnt issue. If I try to bring up netscape
manually from the bash window, it comes up. But if I try to bring it up
as a background process, it does not work. In my code, I tried to spawn
a new netscape process, but that failed. When I modified my code to
instead call netscape directly, it comes up.

Here's a snippet of my code:


sprintf(shellExec, "%s/bin/sh.exe", getenv("SYSTEMDRIVE"));
// spawn new service browser
_flushall();
_spawnlp(_P_DETACH, shellExec, shellExec, "netscape.exe", NULL);




-----Original Message-----
From: Igor Pechtchanski [mailto:pechtcha@cs.nyu.edu]
Sent: Wednesday, August 06, 2003 12:01 PM
To: Menon, Girish (MED, WIPRO-GE MED)
Cc: cygwin@cygwin.com
Subject: Re: Unable to bring up netscape as any other user


On Wed, 6 Aug 2003, Menon, Girish (MED, WIPRO-GE MED) wrote:

> Up until recently, I was using an older version of cygwin (1.3.10).
With
> the advent of the security patch for telnet, inetutils 1.3.23, I
decided
> to upgrade my cygwin version to the latest (1.3.22) with the inetutils
> 1.3.23.
>
> Ever since, I have been having some problems. I installed cygwin as
> Administrator. If I become some other user and try to bring up
netscape
> (which was also installed as Administrator), netscape does not come
up.
>
> If I do a ps, I see the netscape task is running, but I am not able to
> see the browser.
>
> I am attaching the cygcheck output. Any suggestions on where I am
going
> wrong.

The netscape process would come up as a child process of the inetd
service.  Therefore, the service should have interaction with desktop
enabled for you to see the netscape window.  I've added an option for
that
to cygrunsrv, but inetd might not have one, so you'll have to go into
the
services panel and edit the properties of the inetd service to enable
that.  Just check the "Allow service to interact with desktop" checkbox.
Hope this helps,
	Igor
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