On Fri, 21 Jul 2006, Shaddy Baddah wrote: > Hi again, > > On 7/20/2006 1:30 AM, Shaddy Baddah wrote: > > I'm so sorry I didn't pick up on this earlier. Thanks for your > > attention. If you have any ideas on the UID 400 problem, I'd still be > > very interested to hear what was happening on that. > > One last bit of diagnosis. In my earlier email, I claimed that the > displaying of UID 400 instead of SYSTEM was solved after running > cygserver-config. > > Well, I got a little muddled. I finally got back to the original system > that I experienced the problem on (now perhaps not really so much a > problem as I thought. I'll elaborate). > > The attachment is a log of commands that I executed that highlights the > problem very clearly. You will see that after running *exim-config* (not > cygserver-config), the Cygwin services correctly display as uid SYSTEM, > and not 400. > > Looking at the exim-config script, I am totally bewildered how this > could have had any effect on the problem. It looks quite tame (in terms > of editing rights, etc...). Perhaps someone might have better insight > into this. > > I am now also not so sure that the processes showing UID 400 was really > a problem in the first place. In my earlier email, inetd was not working > because of an unrelated problem. I am actually trying to reproduce the > problem now, and just ascertain if there was a *rights* problem > associated, as it did very much appear to me to be earlier.
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