Gary, On Tue, Jan 13, 2009 at 09:55:36AM -0800, Gary Johnson wrote: > On 2009-01-13, Jason Tishler wrote: > > FWIW, I don't have this problem when running fetchmail as a service. > > I saw that in an earlier post and tried to follow the instructions in > /usr/share/doc/Cygwin/fetchmail-6.3.9.README, but I get this result: > > [snip] > > $ cygrunsrv -S fetchmail > cygrunsrv: Error starting a service: StartService: Win32 error 1069: > The service did not start due to a logon failure. > > I have both cron and sshd running as services, so that much works, > but they may be running as the system user (whatever it's called). > I don't know how to diagnose this sort of failure.
Did you heed the following from the README? o the $USERDOMAIN\\$USERNAME account must have the "Log on as a service" user right for Cygwin fetchmail to start as a NT service Jason -- PGP/GPG Key: http://www.tishler.net/jason/pubkey.asc or key servers Fingerprint: 7A73 1405 7F2B E669 C19D 8784 1AFD E4CC ECF4 8EF6 -- 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/