Setting up cygrunsrv after moving installation to another drive

[Ernie Rael]

Thanks Brian, the Windows command to manipulate service configuration is 
exactly what I needed.
-ernie

On 9/25/2016 6:17 PM, Brian Inglis wrote:
> On 2016-09-25 17:28, Ernie Rael wrote:
>> I have just moved (robocopy) cygwin installation from C:/cygwin64 to 
>> F:/cygwin64 (win7). My stumbling block is handling cygrunsrv.
>>
>> For cygrunsrv, I thought I could change the service properties to 
>> start it from F:/..., but I can't figure out how to do that on Win7.
>>
>> Any suggestions on how best to get cygrunsrv going/installed after 
>> moving cygwin installation?
>
> $ sc qc cygserver
> will show how the service is currently configured e.g.
>
> [SC] QueryServiceConfig SUCCESS
>
> SERVICE_NAME: cygserver
>         TYPE               : 10  WIN32_OWN_PROCESS
>         START_TYPE         : 2   AUTO_START  (DELAYED)
>         ERROR_CONTROL      : 1   NORMAL
>         BINARY_PATH_NAME   : C:\cygwin64\bin\cygrunsrv.exe
>         LOAD_ORDER_GROUP   :
>         TAG                : 0
>         DISPLAY_NAME       : CYGWIN cygserver
>         DEPENDENCIES       :
>         SERVICE_START_NAME : LocalSystem
>
> From an elevated prompt (run as Admin):
>
> $ sc config cygserver binPath= $(cygpath -w $(which cygrunsrv))
>
> or the Windows equivalent from an elevated cmd prompt:
>
>> sc config cygserver binPath= F:\cygwin64\bin\cygrunsrv.exe
>
> IIRC the space after the = is required.
>


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