problems with cygrunsrv and inetd

[Joshua Daniel Franklin]

Ruud,

I know it can be difficult to remember everything a page says after
reading through it once, but this issue actually is mentioned in the
Users' Guide under "Internet Setup":

<http://cygwin.com/cygwin-ug-net/setup-net.html>

"The Install For options of All Users or Just Me should always be left on the
default All Users, unless you do not have write access to HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE in
the registry or the All Users Start Menu. This is true even if you are the only
user planning to use Cygwin on the machine. Selecting Just Me will cause
problems for programs such as crond and sshd."


On Mon, Jan 12, 2004 at 07:07:49PM +0100, Ruud Huynen wrote:
> Thank you for your explanation, which points directly to the problem.
> I did a lot of reading yesterday, internet, faqs, userguide, readme files.
> I didn't find anything pointing into this direction.
> The problem occurs in inetutils and sshd and maybe other packages.
> I think it should be described in the readme's and in the userguide.
> 
> Ruud
> 
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "Larry Hall" <cygwin-lh@cygwin.com>
> To: "Ruud Huynen" <ruud.huynen@hispeed.ch>; "Cygwin List"
> <cygwin@cygwin.com>
> Sent: Sunday, January 11, 2004 9:28 PM
> Subject: Re: problems with cygrunsrv and inetd
> 
> 
> > Actually, yes.  Installing for "Just me" creates mount points only for the
> > current user.  All services started by Cygwin are, by default, started as
> > another user, typically SYSTEM, which won't see the user-specific mount
> > points.  To run services "right out of the box" with Cygwin, you really
> > need to install for "All Users".  Looking back now at your report, I guess
> > there was the hint of this issue in the report and your cygcheck output
> > clearly shows user mounts.  Sorry I didn't pick up on this and point it
> out
> > to you sooner.  The alternative to reinstalling everything would have been
> > to just remount all your mounts as 'system' rather than 'user' (see 'man
> > mount') or rerunning setup again without uninstalling and picking "All
> > users" insteaad.  But you clearly got to where you want to be with your
> > method.  Good catch on your part!  Glad you got it working.
> >
> > Larry

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