[cygrunsrv] problem starting exim as service

[Wynfield Henman]

Peaty,
  I had the same problem.  And I agree that cygrunsrv should tell us
correctly whether or not exim is running.  In fact exim does get set
to run as a daemon on boot up.
cygrunsrv  -L (or whatever the list) processes option will not show
you this.  I believe that it should show this process as running (but
some say that exim detaches itself and so cygrunsrv can't know about
it)..  if would know if it did a process check, but that's another
matter..

So you may be trying to start exim when it is already running.
When you start up get into a cygwin terminal and type
ps -aW | grep exim

That fact was that exim was running.

Also I had priviledge problems that I got around with chmod.

Henman

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On 3/12/07, Peatey <peatey@gmail.com> wrote:
> Success! your showing me about cygcheck solved it.  Now I'm moving on
> to configuring /etc/exim.conf, but I thought I'd document for a future
> neophyte with the same problem.
>
> The issue was with cyglber-2-3-0.dll and cygldap-2-3-0.dll not being
> installed automatically with 'exim-4.66-1' package in setup.exe (2-2-7
> dlls were installed instead).  Perhaps this is an application
> packaging bug for 'exim-4.66-1'?
>
> The issue was not the PATH environmental variable (which I already had
> set correctly before).
> The issue does not seem to be the file permissions either (I set the
> chown/chmod for /var/log/exim and /var/spool/exim back to
> peatey:User/770 and the service still starts fine).
>
> Thanks René, three cheers for the helpful cygwin mailing list!
>
> > Just for the record, if you run `cygcheck /usr/bin/exim-4.66-1.exe` before
> > changing the PATH, you'll see that the executable does not find some of the
> > libraries (/usr/bin/exim is a symbolic link to the real executable); the path
> > where those are should be added to Window' PATH (the service doesn't see the
> > same PATH you see inside a shell, it sees the general Windows PATH or one
> > specified at the time the service is installed).
>
> $ cygcheck /usr/bin/exim-4.66-1.exe
> C:/cygwin/bin/exim-4.66-1.exe
>   C:/cygwin/bin\cygcrypt-0.dll
>     C:/cygwin/bin\cygwin1.dll
>       C:\WINDOWS\system32\ADVAPI32.DLL
>         C:\WINDOWS\system32\ntdll.dll
>         C:\WINDOWS\system32\KERNEL32.dll
>         C:\WINDOWS\system32\RPCRT4.dll
>   C:/cygwin/bin\cygcrypto-0.9.8.dll
>   C:/cygwin/bin\cyggdbm-4.dll
>   C:/cygwin/bin\cygiconv-2.dll
> Error: could not find cyglber-2-3-0.dll
> Error: could not find cygldap-2-3-0.dll
>   C:/cygwin/bin\cygminires.dll
>   C:/cygwin/bin\cygssl-0.9.8.dll
> Error: could not find cyglber-2-3-0.dll
> Error: could not find cyglber-2-3-0.dll
> Error: could not find cyglber-2-3-0.dll
>
> Well, cygcheck couldn't find it in /bin, since those .dlls weren't
> there.  So I searched for the names in the Cygwin Package List and
> installed 'libopenldap2_3_0' package. I then ran cygcheck again.
>
> $ cygcheck /usr/bin/exim-4.66-1.exe
> C:/cygwin/bin/exim-4.66-1.exe
>   C:/cygwin/bin\cygcrypt-0.dll
>     C:/cygwin/bin\cygwin1.dll
>       C:\WINDOWS\system32\ADVAPI32.DLL
>         C:\WINDOWS\system32\ntdll.dll
>         C:\WINDOWS\system32\KERNEL32.dll
>         C:\WINDOWS\system32\RPCRT4.dll
>   C:/cygwin/bin\cygcrypto-0.9.8.dll
>   C:/cygwin/bin\cyggdbm-4.dll
>   C:/cygwin/bin\cygiconv-2.dll
>   C:/cygwin/bin\cyglber-2-3-0.dll
>   C:/cygwin/bin\cygldap-2-3-0.dll
>     C:/cygwin/bin\cygminires.dll
>     C:/cygwin/bin\cygssl-0.9.8.dll
>     C:/cygwin/bin\cygsasl2-2.dll
>
> $ exim-config
> ************************************************
> This script sets some key parameters of the exim
> installation and starts the exim daemon.
> See the details in /usr/share/doc/Cygwin/exim-X-Y.README.
>     Interrupt with ^D.
>
> OK. No usernames contain spaces.
>
> OK. The /etc/aliases file contains "postmaster".
>
> OK. The primary hostname gmail.com
>     is already defined in /etc/exim.conf.
>
> INFO: Some programs expect /usr/sbin/sendmail to handle mail.
> Currently it is a symbolic link to /usr/bin/exim.
>
> Exim is already installed as a service under account 'LocalSystem'.
> Do you want to remove or reinstall it? (yes/no) yes
> OK. The exim service was removed.
>
> Do you want to install the exim daemon as a service? (yes/no) yes
> Enter the period of the queue runner, in minutes: [15]
> Enter the value of CYGWIN for the daemon: [ntsec notraverse]
>
> Do you want to start the exim daemon as a service now? (yes/no) yes
> OK. The mail daemon is now accepting mail.
>     You can test it with "telnet localhost 25".
>
> INFO: The exim log files are in /var/log/exim.
>
> When everything else fails,
>     read /usr/share/doc/Cygwin/exim-X-Y.README,
>     or look up the documentation on www.exim.org.
> Many happy mailings :)
>
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