Peatey wrote: [snip] > 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.
OK, this means that exim is not finding its dynamic libaries... put C:\Cygwin\bin (or wherever you have it installed) on Windows' PATH (My Computer -> Properties -> Advance -> Environment Variables : PATH). [snip] > 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. No, most files will be owned by you, as you installed Cygwin, but services is a different story, they usually run as SYSTEM so they have complete access to everything they need. [snip] >> That's not a _fully_qualified_ host name. > > if i'm trying to use smtp.g I don't understand what you mean. In /etc/exim.conf you will find a variable named "primary_hostname", the comments before it explain what is needed as fully qualified host name, if you don't have one then what you have is probably OK. [snip] > I don't know. It was the default option so I left it there. Do you > think I should remove it? As I said before, I don't know what it is for, and I don't use it, that's why it seemed odd to me. [snip] > I used 'chown SYSTEM:root' on all these directories but the service > still will not start. I'd appreciate further suggestions. Just for the record, if you run `cygcheck /usr/bin/exim-4.66-1.exe` before changing the PATH, you'll see that the executable does not find some of the libraries (/usr/bin/exim is a symbolic link to the real executable); the path where those are should be added to Window' PATH (the service doesn't see the same PATH you see inside a shell, it sees the general Windows PATH or one specified at the time the service is installed). -- René Berber -- 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/
