cygserver service won't start

[Alder]

Igor Pechtchanski wrote::
> On Sat, 11 Sep 2004, Alder wrote:
> 
> 
>>Corinna Vinschen wrote::
>>
>>>On Sep 10 09:47, Alder wrote:
>>>
>>>
>>>>Corinna,
>>>>
>>>>I don't know if this is relevant, but I have to add the "/bin" directory
>>>>to the cygrunsrv command line in the /bin/cygserver-config file in order
>>>>to avoid Windows failing to find the 'cygwin1.dll".  So, the line I have
>>>>is:
>>>>
>>>>if ! cygrunsrv -I cygserver -d "CYGWIN cygserver" \
>>>> -p /usr/sbin/cygserver -f "Shared memory manager" \
>>>> -2 /var/log/cygserver.err -e PATH="/bin:$PATH"
>>>
>>>
>>>Did you know that cygrunsrv adds /bin to $PATH by itself before trying
>>>to run the inferior process for the very reason to find cygwin1.dll?
>>>
>>>Adding it explicitely is really unnecessary.  Just to be sure, I tried
>>>it again on my machine and it works fine.
>>
>>On a perfect platform, perhaps, but like I said, I really had to add it
>>because without it there a Windows dialog would pop up when I ran cygserver
>>telling me that 'Cygwin1.dll' could not be found.  That was also true on my
>>previous installation, and one of the reasons I thought it best to reinstall.
> 
> 
> I'm observing similar behavior, but it looks like our causes may be
> different.
> 
> If your cygcheck showed that you have check_case:strict in your CYGWIN
> variable, I'd've guessed that this is another instance of the bug I
> reported on the cygwin-developers list (where the PATH got truncated on
> converting it back to Win32 format).  The fact that cygrunsrv *appends*
> /bin to the PATH, whereas you *prepend* it, seems to argue strongly for
> this.
> 
> Just for the sake of completeness, though, could you please try adding a
> service that basically invokes cmd.exe with '-c "echo %PATH%"' as
> arguments, and see what the PATH is in the log after starting the service?
> 	Igor

I've never installed a service of my own, so I hope what follows is what 
you had in mind:

Manager@kiraly ~
$ cygrunsrv -I cmd -f "Cygwin PATH test" \
	-p /cygdrive/c/winnt/system32/cmd.exe \
	-a '-c "echo %PATH%"' \
	-1 /var/log/cmd.log -2 /var/log/cmd.err

Manager@kiraly ~
$ cygrunsrv -Q cmd
Service cmd exists
Type                : Own Process
Current State       : Stopped
Controls Accepted   :

Manager@kiraly ~
$ cygrunsrv -S cmd
cygrunsrv: Error starting a service: QueryServiceStatus:  Win32 error 1062:
The service has not been started.

Manager@kiraly ~
$ ls -l /var/log
...
-rw-r--r--    1 SYSTEM   Administ        0 Sep 12 15:56 cmd.err
-rw-r--r--    1 SYSTEM   Administ      105 Sep 12 15:56 cmd.log
...

[--- Start cmd.log ---]
Microsoft Windows 2000 [Version 5.00.2195]
(C) Copyright 1985-2000 Microsoft Corp.

C:\WINNT\system32>
[--- End cmd.log ---]

Regards,

Alder


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