init.d

[Max Bowsher]

On Tue, 11 Mar 2003, Igor Pechtchanski wrote:

> IIRC, cygrunsrv expects the program it's starting to fork
> itself and exit with an appropriate return code within a certain time
> window.  Otherwise it times out and says "the service could not be started
> proprely".  sshd and httpd (and some others as well) have an option to
> fork and exit -- see if webmin has one as well.

I think you've got that backwards. Cygrunsrv expects the process to *not*
fork and exit, and the sshd/httpd/rsyncd options are for *preventing*
the usual fork and exit.

Max.


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