Re: Re: [cygrunsrv] problem starting exim as service

Ugh, top-posting... Reformatted. On Tue, 13 Mar 2007, Karl M wrote: > > From: "Wynfield Henman" Subject: Re: Re: [cygrunsrv] problem starting exim > > as service > > Date: Tue, 13 Mar 2007 14:31:41 +0900 > > > > [snip] > > I believe that it should

Re: Re: [cygrunsrv] problem starting exim as service

Ugh, ... Reformatted. On Tue, 13 Mar 2007, Wynfield Henman wrote: > On 3/12/07, Peatey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: . Thanks. > > [snip] > > Peaty, > I had the same problem. And I agree that cygrunsrv should tell us

Re: [cygrunsrv] problem starting exim as service

Karl M wrote: Hi All... Cygrunsrv needs the process to stay attached so it can keep track of it for you. Services are managed differently on Windows than on *ix. Exim has command line options to allow this (-bdf instead of -bd). I've never used exim, but looked in the FAQ. And indeed the '

Re: [cygrunsrv] problem starting exim as service

Wynfield Henman wrote: Peaty, I had the same problem. And I agree that cygrunsrv should tell us correctly whether or not exim is running. In fact exim does get set to run as a daemon on boot up. Peaty didn't mention anything about cygrunsrv showing or not showing whether 'exim' is running.

Re: Re: [cygrunsrv] problem starting exim as service

exim from detaching, you can create a wrapper script around exim that does not detach. This can be as simple or fancy (keep track of the pid for signalling) as you like. ...Karl From: "Wynfield Henman" Subject: Re: Re: [cygrunsrv] problem starting exim as service Date: Tue, 13 Mar

Re: Re: [cygrunsrv] problem starting exim as service

Peaty, I had the same problem. And I agree that cygrunsrv should tell us correctly whether or not exim is running. In fact exim does get set to run as a daemon on boot up. cygrunsrv -L (or whatever the list) processes option will not show you this. I believe that it should show this process a

Re: Re: [cygrunsrv] problem starting exim as service

Success! your showing me about cygcheck solved it. Now I'm moving on to configuring /etc/exim.conf, but I thought I'd document for a future neophyte with the same problem. The issue was with cyglber-2-3-0.dll and cygldap-2-3-0.dll not being installed automatically with 'exim-4.66-1' package in s

Re: [cygrunsrv] problem starting exim as service

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 descri

Re: Re: [cygrunsrv] problem starting exim as service

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 u

Re: [cygrunsrv] problem starting exim as service

Peatey wrote: > I'm having a frustrating time trying to get exim (current, 4.66-1) to > start as service. I'd appreciate any help to get exim to work as > sendmail so I can get crontab started with MAILTO=. > > I was broadly following the steps outlined at > http://pigtail.net/LRP/exim/exim-cygw

Re: [cygrunsrv] problem starting exim as service

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 According to Peatey on 3/11/2007 12:09 PM: > I'm having a frustrating time trying to get exim (current, 4.66-1) to > start as service. I'd appreciate any help to get exim to work as > sendmail so I can get crontab started with MAILTO=. > > I was broa