Thanks for the reply René. I didn't know pigtail.net was so
notorious, now I know to rely on the official mailing list first
(although i dunno what i would have done differently if i didn't visit
pigtail.net, as all i did was use setup.exe and then exim-config).
As you can see below, I'm still unable to start the service.
Application Event Viewer gives this output, which doesn't ring any
bells for me:
Event Type: Information
Event Source: exim
Event Category: None
Event ID: 0
Date: 3/11/2007
Time: 8:33:05 PM
User: NT AUTHORITY\SYSTEM
Computer: PEATEY1
Description:
The description for Event ID ( 0 ) in Source ( exim ) cannot be found.
The local computer may not have the necessary registry information or
message DLL files to display messages from a remote computer. You may
be able to use the /AUXSOURCE= flag to retrieve this description; see
Help and Support for details. The following information is part of the
event: exim: PID 2632: `exim' service stopped, exit status: 53.
Now that's better, but you have strange directory ownership all over, did you
create the directories yourself?
No, I just used setup.exe [installed for All Users/recommended] to
install the packages (i was/am logged in as peatey in WinXP, and I am
Administrator for WinXP). I didn't use chmod or chown at all. Almost
all files in /bin and rest of cygwin directories are peatey:Users.
should they be SYSTEM:root? Did I miss a crucial step in installing
cygwin? Please clear up my neophyte confusion.
Looking for the fully qualified primary hostname.
Is it "peatey1"? (yes/no) yes
That's not a _fully_qualified_ host name.
if i'm trying to use smtp.g
Enter the value of CYGWIN for the daemon: [ntsec notraverse]
What's the notraverse for?
I don't know. It was the default option so I left it there. Do you
think I should remove it?
$ cygrunsrv -S exim
cygrunsrv: Error starting a service: QueryServiceStatus: Win32 error 1062:
The service has not been started.
You should look at the events, there's something describing the problem there.
$ ls -all /var/log
...
drwxrwx---+ 2 peatey Users 0 Mar 11 13:18 exim/
...
Doesn't look right, I have:
drwxrwxrwx+ 2 SYSTEM root 0 Feb 23 00:00 exim/
...
$ ls -all /var/spool
...
drwxrwx---+ 2 peatey Users 0 Mar 11 04:07 exim/
Same here, I have:
drwxrwxrwx+ 6 SYSTEM root 0 Mar 14 2006 exim/
$ ls -all /var/spool/exim
drwxrwx---+ 2 peatey Users 0 Mar 11 04:07 ./
drwxrwx---+ 3 peatey Users 0 Mar 11 04:07 ../
Empty, exim could not create anything, that is the problem... exim is running as
SYSTEM but this directory is owned by your user. Delete and let exim create it.
I used 'chown SYSTEM:root' on all these directories but the service
still will not start. I'd appreciate further suggestions.
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