cygserver error

[Reini Urban]

Lester Ingber schrieb:
> Dave:
> 
> :   Hmmm, one of those is a login shell, and the other is not.  That may well
> : make the difference.  If you add the "-ls" option to the xterm invocation,
> : does it then behave the same as when you start via cygwin.bat?
> 
> This makes no difference.  I still get the reported errors.
> 
> :   It isn't anything to do with X; it's to do with the way the environment is
> : configured.  And probably the underlying problem with your service (as
> : illustrated by the two separate ways of invoking shells above) is that the
> : environment isn't set right.
> : 
> :   Take a look at the difference in your cygcheck output between the sshd
> : config and the cygserver config; I think you need to specify CYGWIN=server in
> : the environment for that particular service, not in your per-user windows
> : environment.
> : 
> :   So try re-running the cygrunsrv command you used to set up cygserver, and
> : this time add the option "-e CYGWIN=server".  See this section of the docs for
> : an example:
> : 
> : http://cygwin.com/cygwin-ug-net/using-cygserver.html#use-cygserver
> 
> In this doc, I have followed the first prescription, setting CYGWIN
> to server in my Windows environment.  (If so I shouldn't even need
> to add `set CYGWIN=server` in cygwin.bat.  Isn't this correct?).

set CYGWIN=server in cygwin.bat should be enough.
In your bash
$ printenv CYGWIN
should print: server

> Therefore, I should not have to use `cygrunsrv -I foo -p /usr/sbin/foo
> -e "CYGWIN=server"` Isn't this correct?  In any case I am not sure what
> "service" to implement here to replace "foo"?

If you use any service which uses IPC, you must use the recommended -e 
"CYGWIN=server" setting. You can look through your cygwin services 
(cygrunsrv -L e.g.) and look if some cygwin service requires this 
setting (wading though the docs e.g.).
Out of my head I know by hard only sshd (optional) and PostgreSQL

cat 
/proc/registry/HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE/SYSTEM/CurrentControlSet/Services/sshd/
Parameters/Environment/CYGWIN
=> server

cat 
/proc/registry/HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE/SYSTEM/CurrentControlSet/Services/PostgreSQL/
Parameters/Environment/CYGWIN
=> server

> I did try adding `set CYGWIN=server` in my startupx.sh, but I still get the
> same errors.

That is an error.
.sh shell files require a shell syntax, not a MSDOS command syntax.
Try "export CYGWIN=server" in your startupx.sh.
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