On Mon, 12 Jul 2004, W. Borgert wrote: > Hi, > > I managed to telnet into my XP box using cygwin xinetd, but if I run > Python (not the cygwin variant, but the stock www.python.org > installer) I get no interaction at all. Running the same Python > variant in the cygwin bash without telnet session, there is no > problem. Is this a known limitation? Did I do something wrong? Do > I have to tweak the CYGWIN variable? Many thanks in advance! > > Cheers, WB
A WAG: some Windows programs may require interaction with desktop, even for non-graphical tasks. Check out the "-i" flag to cygrunsrv, or the "Allow service to interact with desktop" checkbox in the Windows service properties dialog. Igor -- http://cs.nyu.edu/~pechtcha/ |\ _,,,---,,_ [EMAIL PROTECTED] ZZZzz /,`.-'`' -. ;-;;,_ [EMAIL PROTECTED] |,4- ) )-,_. ,\ ( `'-' Igor Pechtchanski, Ph.D. '---''(_/--' `-'\_) fL a.k.a JaguaR-R-R-r-r-r-.-.-. Meow! "I have since come to realize that being between your mentor and his route to the bathroom is a major career booster." -- Patrick Naughton -- 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/