Cygwin services using uid 400, not SYSTEM. Why?

[Shaddy Baddah]

Hi again,

On 7/20/2006 1:30 AM, Shaddy Baddah wrote:
> I'm so sorry I didn't pick up on this earlier. Thanks for your 
> attention. If you have any ideas on the UID 400 problem, I'd still be 
> very interested to hear what was happening on that.

One last bit of diagnosis. In my earlier email, I claimed that the 
displaying of UID 400 instead of SYSTEM was solved after running 
cygserver-config.

Well, I got a little muddled. I finally got back to the original system 
that I experienced the problem on (now perhaps not really so much a 
problem as I thought. I'll elaborate).

The attachment is a log of commands that I executed that highlights the 
problem very clearly. You will see that after running *exim-config* (not 
cygserver-config), the Cygwin services correctly display as uid SYSTEM, 
and not 400.

Looking at the exim-config script, I am totally bewildered how this 
could have had any effect on the problem. It looks quite tame (in terms 
of editing rights, etc...). Perhaps someone might have better insight 
into this.

I am now also not so sure that the processes showing UID 400 was really 
a problem in the first place. In my earlier email, inetd was not working 
because of an unrelated problem. I am actually trying to reproduce the 
problem now, and just ascertain if there was a *rights* problem 
associated, as it did very much appear to me to be earlier.

Regards,
Shaddy

--
Unsubscribe info:      http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple
Problem reports:       http://cygwin.com/problems.html
Documentation:         http://cygwin.com/docs.html
FAQ:                   http://cygwin.com/faq/