can't start inetd as service

[Andrew DeFaria]

Steve Roth wrote:

> Greetings,
>
> I'm having difficulty using inetd under cygwin.  After installing it 
> as a service (apparently successfully), "net start inetd" shows this 
> error:
>    The service is not responding to the control function.
> I have tried all of the suggestions I could find in the README and in 
> archived emails about this problem, to no avail.  In particular:
>  - I have c:\cygwin\bin at the beginning of my system path.
>  - I have set the CYGWIN environment variable in the system environment.
>  - I have also set the ProgramOptions registry key for inetd.exe.
>
> I have added some debug logging to inetd.c.  I find that none of its 
> functions are called when I run "net start inetd".  In particular, 
> service_main() is not.

Have you rebooted since you change your system env vars?
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