Mark,
Please post instead of sending private email.
On Fri, Oct 24, 2003 at 11:03:51AM -0700, Mark Rissman wrote:
> Any thoughts as to why proftpd service won't start on WinXP. I
> followed your article about making it a service.
See the following:
http://www.catb.org/~esr/faqs/smart-questions.html
> If I try to run manually I get.
>
> $ /usr/sbin/proftpd
> 255.255.255.255 - unable to set uid to 18, current uid: 11025
The above wont work. Use the "at trick" if you want to run proftpd
manually:
http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&lr=&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&q=cygwin+at+trick+localsystem
Jason
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