Prakash Khemani wrote: > > Yes. Setting the SYSTEMROOT environment variable in Apach'e CGI > environment did it. "Thou shalt not unset SYSTEMROOT" is a good > commandment to stick with. > > Thanks everybody for the excellent help!
Since this has come up a few times recently and is somewhat non-obvious, any chance of having it added to the Cygwin FAQ? Perhaps the Apache README would be a better place, but it would seem to apply to any situation where some program "cleans" the environment and then Windows functions start to mysteriously fail. Brian -- 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/