error setting up ipc-daemon

[Andrew DeFaria]

Igor Pechtchanski wrote:

> Randall,
>
> An excerpt from "cygrunsrv --help" below
>
> -e, --env <VAR=VALUE> Optional environment strings which are added
> to the environment when service is started.
> You can add up to 255 environment strings using
> the `--env' option.
> Note: /bin is always added to $PATH to allow all
> started applications to find at least cygwin1.dll.
>
> shows that you shouldn't really need to add c:\cygwin\bin to your system
> path (if one uses cygrunsrv, that is). If that is not the case, then it's
> a bug in cygrunsrv (or an error in documentation).
> Igor

Or perhaps you're reading it wrong. I read it as cygrunsrv will stick 
these environment variables into the environment of the process that it 
starts. Of course starting of cygrunsrv will also require access to 
cygwin1.dll and if that is not in your Windows System Environment 
Variable PATH (i.e. where the services pick up their environment 
variable PATH - before you log in) then cygrunsrv will fail too.

You see the way I see it cygrunsrv starts then forks the "service" you 
configured with it. Of course this now brings up the question of why 
doesn't cygrunsrv "exec" the service so that you don't see extra 
cygrunsrv processes in Task Manager. Perhaps the answer is that then it 
can't stuff the child's environment with these --env parms.



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