inetd as a microsoft service can't find /etc/inetd.conf

[Larry Hall (RFK Partners, Inc)]

At 02:05 PM 5/18/2001, Mark Keil wrote:


> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Larry Hall (RFK Partners, Inc) [ mailto:lhall@rfk.com ]
> > Sent: Friday, May 18, 2001 1:51 PM
> > To: Mark Keil; cygwin@cygwin.com
> > Subject: Re: inetd as a microsoft service can't find /etc/inetd.conf
> > 
> > missing.  With what you've supplied so far, I'm left wondering why 
> > inetutils-1.3.2.README doesn't address your concern.
>
>So am I. I do know that one needs to do the mkpasswd step,
>and that is not in inetutils-1.3.2.README


What step is that?


>I have done this:
>
>   inetd -- install-as service
>
>   net start inetd  (and indeed two inetd'd run)
>
>   - The environment variable CYGWIN must be either set in the system
>     environment to be active from start on or you can set CYGWIN thru
>     the registry:
>     Under the key HKLM\Software\Cygnus Solutions\Cygwin\Program Options
>     create a key of type REG_SZ (String) named like the full DOS path
>     to the application, eg. "C:\usr\bin\inetd.exe" and with the value
>     equal to the preferred CYGWIN settings, eg "binmode tty ntsec".
>
>I had to use the CYGWIN variable, since regedit just won;'t accept
>"\" in key names, so that documented step option seems just wrong.
>
>   - The system environment variable PATH must contain the path
>     to the directory which contains the cygwin1.dll.


Perhaps you want to submit a patch for this part of the documentation?


>Then there is this step, which doesn't make sense,
>and doesn't seem to be addressed in the user guide.
>Just what does this mean anyway?
>(and I have been using cygin for the last 2.5 years
>  without needing it as far as I can tell...)
>
>   - No user mount point is valid anymore! You have to install all
>     your mount points in the system mount table. This doesn't
>     change after you have logged in to a normal user account eg.
>     via telnet/rlogin. It's possible that we can use the user
>     mounts as soon as somebody contributes a patch to login and
>     ftp that allows loading a user hive into the registry after
>     authentication.


It means pretty much what Egor said.  Your mount points need to be 
system-wide, not just on a per user basis.  Check out mount --help 
for more information about this.



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