Walter, Try to go into the Service Manager (through control panel) and enter the correct user account password for the service.
-ME -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] On Behalf Of Walter Garcia-Fontes Sent: Friday, October 05, 2001 5:54 AM To: Cygwin Subject: Re: Fetchmail as a service I followed the instructions given recently in this forum on how to install fetchmail as a service (fetchmail is running fine in the background): * Jason Tishler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [010925 03:26]: > > > 2. I needed to (re)define the HOME variable when I installed fetchmail > as a service: > > cygrunsrv --install fetchmail --path /usr/local/bin/fetchmail --args "--daemon 300 --nodetach" --env HOME=/home/my_account --termsig TERM --user 'my_user' --shutdown > When I do this, fetchmail appears fine in the service list (I'm on NT) but if I want to start the service I get the following message: Could not start the fetchmail service on \\machine_name. Error 2140: An internal Windows NT error occurred. I have assigned my account all the user rights to run inetd, for instance. Attached is the output of cygcheck... Thanks for any clue, -- Walter Garcia-Fontes mailto: [EMAIL PROTECTED] - http://puna.upf.es Departament d'Economia i Empresa (http://www.econ.upf.es) Universitat Pompeu Fabra Ramon Trias Fargas 25-27, 08005 Barcelona, Spain Tel. +34 93 542 2722 - Fax. +34 93 542 1746 -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Bug reporting: http://cygwin.com/bugs.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/
