Thanks much Igor, that solved that problem. I apologize for the dearth of supportive info, I'll be more responsible in the future. Cygwin is a great system and I deeply appreciate your work and help. I now seem to have other permission issues I'll try to work through. I didn't install cygwin on this machine, I inherited it and I don't have admin priv's so don't know to what extent I can fix things. The mounts were user mounts as you suggested.
I've got a windows XP box at home that I installed cygwin on and all is working well, so I KNOW its a great system. Thank you again Igor! -jeff hardy --- Igor Pechtchanski <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Wed, 9 Jun 2004, Jeff Hardy wrote: > > > Hi, I have installed cygrunsrv on my win2k box > (cygwin > > is already installed) and when I try to start init > > with the initscripts config script I get the > following > > error in the event log: > > > > The description for Event ID ( 0 ) in Source ( > init ) > > cannot be found. The local computer may not have > the > > necessary registry information or message DLL > files to > > display messages from a remote computer. The > following > > information is part of the event: init : PID 1948 > : > > starting service `' failed: redirect_fd: open (1, > > /var/log/init.log): 2, No such file or directory. > > > > cygrunsrv seems to be creating the /var/log > directory > > directly in my c: drive instead of under the > cygwin > > directory in my C: drive. > > > > Any suggestions? > > Here's one: > > > Problem reports: > http://cygwin.com/problems.html > > In the absense of your install information, here's > an (educated) WAG: you > have user mounts instead of system ones (i.e., you > installed for "Just Me" > instead of "All Users"). See > <http://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/2004-06/msg00347.html>. > Igor > > > thanks, > > -jeff > > > > PS just for the heck of it I tried to start xinetd > > with the same sygrunsrv command line and got the > > identical error message above, but with init.log > > replaced by xinetd.log. > > -- > http://cs.nyu.edu/~pechtcha/ > |\ _,,,---,,_ [EMAIL PROTECTED] > ZZZzz /,`.-'`' -. ;-;;,_ [EMAIL PROTECTED] > |,4- ) )-,_. ,\ ( `'-' Igor Pechtchanski, > Ph.D. > '---''(_/--' `-'\_) fL a.k.a > JaguaR-R-R-r-r-r-.-.-. Meow! > > "I have since come to realize that being between > your mentor and his route > to the bathroom is a major career booster." -- > Patrick Naughton __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Friends. Fun. Try the all-new Yahoo! Messenger. http://messenger.yahoo.com/ -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/
