This is truly bizarre (of course, it always is until you figure it out...) I have cygwin 1.7.1(0.218/5/3) on Server 2008 and I use cygrunsrv for several services (sshd, exim, and named). Most of the time this works perfectly, but every once in a while the services (all of them) won't start. As far as I know, there is nothing different about setup for the environments where things work and where they don't work. Obviously something is different, but my observation is that I can do the same installations steps on the same box and things work fine about 98% of the time. Some of the things I've observed are:
1) If I reboot, the services start up. 2) If I replace cygrunsrv.exe with a dummy stub that simply logs the path, built with VC, it gets run with net start <service> and logs the path as expected. 3) If I build the dummy stub with g++, and it links against cygwin1.dll, it doesn't seem to run at all. Nothing is logged in the event log except for the service time out message. I don't think it's a path issue as it works fine 98% of the time and I'm not changing the path. Additionally, the path in 2) looks fine. What in the world would keep an application linked against cygwin1.dll from activating via the SCM? Thanks for any suggestions, jim -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple
