changing path for services on Win2K
Gerrit P. Haase
gp@familiehaase.de
Fri Sep 7 13:29:00 GMT 2001
Mark Himsley schrieb am 2001-09-07, 12:47:
>Hi,
>
>I don't know if this is just my lack on knowledge on Windows NT platforms,
>but how do I change the value of the PATH environment variable which
>services like inetd, sshd, crond etc... use.
>
>I have altered the system PATH variable in "My computer | Properties |
>Advanced | Environmental Variables" and stopped & restarted those services
>but they don't seem to pick up the change until a reboot occurs.
>
>I suspect its just a Windows thing, but I was wondering if I had missed
>something.
>
>Thanks in advance.
I suggest if you're changing the PATH setting, you need to
1. reinstall the service
or
2. reboot
Other option is to give it as an option to cygrunsrv, so it depends
not on the environment settings.
Useful for setting CYGWIN=tty binmode ntsec and maybe PATH=/bin:...
if you need some other directories.
$ cygrunsrv --help
Usage: cygrunsrv [OPTION]...
[...]
Miscellaneous install options:
[...]
-e, --env <VAR=VALUE> Optional environment strings which are added
to the environment when service is started.
You can add up to 255 environment strings using
the `--env' option.
Note: /bin is always added to $PATH to allow all
started applications to find at least cygwin1.dll.
[...]
Gerrit
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