RE: Unable to bring up netscape as any other user

["Menon, Girish (MED, WIPRO-GE MED)" <Girish dot Menon at med dot ge dot com>]

I am not getting any error at all from the execution of the script. It
just quits. I checked the error code too. It is 0.

I also tried with giving the entire path, like /bin/env. That did not
work either.


-----Original Message-----
From: Igor Pechtchanski [mailto:pechtcha@cs.nyu.edu]
Sent: Wednesday, August 06, 2003 5:08 PM
To: Menon, Girish (MED, WIPRO-GE MED)
Cc: cygwin@cygwin.com
Subject: RE: Unable to bring up netscape as any other user


BTW, as I mentioned before, cygrunsrv has the -i/--interactive option
that
allows you to set this from the command line.

FYI, backtick processing does not happen in the background -- the
spawning
shell actually waits for the child to complete.  That said, what are the
exact errors you're getting when you try to execute that script?  Keep
in
mind that your environment (in particular, $PATH) may not be the same in
the spawned process and the interactive shell.  Try fully specifying the
paths to any commands ("env" and "grep" in your example).
	Igor

On Wed, 6 Aug 2003, Menon, Girish (MED, WIPRO-GE MED) wrote:

> Never mind the question about setting the registry for "Allowing
service
> to interact with desktop"... I found that a dword of 110 will do for
the
> inetd registry entry.
>
> But I still had one question though. From the bash shell the ` (back
> ticks) work. But when I spawn a process and execute a shell script
which
> contains the back ticks, the process just chokes.
>
> For example, a simple shell script like
> #!/bin/sh
> ..
> ..
> myenv=`env | grep CYGWIN`
> ..
> ..
>
>
> I am able to execute this script properly from the bash shell (as any
> user on the system). But this same script when executed via a spawned
> process does not work. Looks like something is broken in my background
> processing.
>
> Any help?
>
> Girish
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Menon, Girish (MED, WIPRO-GE MED)
> Sent: Wednesday, August 06, 2003 3:01 PM
> To: 'cygwin@cygwin.com'
> Subject: RE: Unable to bring up netscape as any other user
>
>
> Also, rather than going via command line, is there any other way I can
> do the same setting (i.e. going via services and modifying the
> properties of inetd)? Any arguments to cygrunsrv or inetd or modifying
> the registry...
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Menon, Girish (MED, WIPRO-GE MED)
> Sent: Wednesday, August 06, 2003 1:06 PM
> To: 'cygwin@cygwin.com'
> Subject: RE: Unable to bring up netscape as any other user
>
>
> Great. It worked.
>
> Now I have a slightly differnt issue. If I try to bring up netscape
> manually from the bash window, it comes up. But if I try to bring it
up
> as a background process, it does not work. In my code, I tried to
spawn
> a new netscape process, but that failed. When I modified my code to
> instead call netscape directly, it comes up.
>
> Here's a snippet of my code:
>
>
> sprintf(shellExec, "%s/bin/sh.exe", getenv("SYSTEMDRIVE"));
> // spawn new service browser
> _flushall();
> _spawnlp(_P_DETACH, shellExec, shellExec, "netscape.exe", NULL);
>
>
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Igor Pechtchanski [mailto:pechtcha@cs.nyu.edu]
> Sent: Wednesday, August 06, 2003 12:01 PM
> To: Menon, Girish (MED, WIPRO-GE MED)
> Cc: cygwin@cygwin.com
> Subject: Re: Unable to bring up netscape as any other user
>
>
> On Wed, 6 Aug 2003, Menon, Girish (MED, WIPRO-GE MED) wrote:
>
> > Up until recently, I was using an older version of cygwin (1.3.10).
> With
> > the advent of the security patch for telnet, inetutils 1.3.23, I
> decided
> > to upgrade my cygwin version to the latest (1.3.22) with the
inetutils
> > 1.3.23.
> >
> > Ever since, I have been having some problems. I installed cygwin as
> > Administrator. If I become some other user and try to bring up
> netscape
> > (which was also installed as Administrator), netscape does not come
> up.
> >
> > If I do a ps, I see the netscape task is running, but I am not able
to
> > see the browser.
> >
> > I am attaching the cygcheck output. Any suggestions on where I am
> going
> > wrong.
>
> The netscape process would come up as a child process of the inetd
> service.  Therefore, the service should have interaction with desktop
> enabled for you to see the netscape window.  I've added an option for
> that
> to cygrunsrv, but inetd might not have one, so you'll have to go into
> the
> services panel and edit the properties of the inetd service to enable
> that.  Just check the "Allow service to interact with desktop"
checkbox.
> Hope this helps,
>         Igor
>

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