Installation of cygserver as a Win2k service says it fails to start but ps show it as running.
John Griffiths
fedora@grifent.com
Fri Oct 28 19:23:00 GMT 2005
We have several computers running Windows 2000 and Cygwin. On some of
the computers, cygwin has been installed and removed several times for
various reasons, new version of cygwin, etc. These installations were
not always done by Administrator; they may have been done by another
user with administrator privileges.
After installing cygwin, I install some cygwin applications as Windows
services using cygrunsrv, for instance, cygserver.
Administrator@snowwhite ~
$ cygserver-config --yes
Overwrite existing /etc/cygserver.conf file? (yes/no) yes
Generating /etc/cygserver.conf file
Warning: The following function requires administrator privileges!
Do you want to install cygserver as service?
(Say no if it's already installed as service) (yes/no) yes
The service has been installed under LocalSystem account.
To start it, call cygrunsrv -S cygserver'.
Further configuration options are available by editing the configuration
file /etc/cygserver.conf. Please read the inline information in that
file carefully. The best option for the start is to just leave it alone.
Please keep in mind, that a client application which wants to use
the services provided by cygserver *must* have the environment variable
CYGWIN set so that it contains the word server. So, if you don't
need any other special CYGWIN setting, just set it to server.
It is advisable to add this setting to the Windows system environment.
Basic Cygserver configuration finished. Have fun!
Administrator@snowwhite ~
$ cygrunsrv -S cygserver
cygrunsrv: Error starting a service: QueryServiceStatus: Win32
error 1062:
The service has not been started.
Administrator@snowwhite ~
$ cygrunsrv -Q cygserver
Service : cygserver
Display name : CYGWIN cygserver
Current State : Stopped
Command : /usr/sbin/cygserver
Administrator@snowwhite ~
$ ps -ef
UID PID PPID TTY STIME COMMAND
Administ 2108 1 con 14:14:40 /usr/bin/bash
Administ 1928 1 con 14:14:55 /usr/bin/bash
SYSTEM 2148 2176 ? 14:15:32 /usr/sbin/cygserver
Administ 2160 2108 con 14:15:43 /usr/bin/ps
The service shows up in the Windows services but not as started. Trying
to start the service fails because it is already running.
This also happens for sshd and postgres.
The only way I have found to clear up the situation is to format the
hard drive and reinstall Win2k which is a bit drastic. I hope there is a
better solution. I tried searching the archives but did not see a
solution or even the same problem.
I have attached the output of cygcheck -s -v -r .
I will be thankful for any and all help.
Regards,
John
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