Re: inetd service issues - cygrunsrv (was: cygrunsrv sshd fails: Some clues)

[Corinna Vinschen <cygwin at cygwin dot com>]

On Wed, Dec 05, 2001 at 07:46:25AM -0500, Shawn Behrens wrote:
> Hi,
> 
>  >Inetd has been ported many moons before cygrunsrv came to existence.
>  >So it has the NT service handling code builtin.
> 
> I see. inetd would refuse to start on both my 2k and my XP machine. I have 
> resolved this now: I needed c:\cygwin\bin in the PATH, so cygwin1.dll can 
> be found by the inetd service. inetd itself apparently looks for it 
> somewhere in an 'sbin' (forgot to write down exactly which sbin), and also 
> strangely '.'

That's documented in /usr/doc/Cygwin/inetutils-1.3.2.README.

> 
> I wonder whether that PATH entry helps some folks who have trouble with 
> sshd as a service? I doubt it though.

Yup.  cygrunsrv adds always /bin to $PATH.

Corinna

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