On 24/02/2012 15:07, Eliot Moss wrote: > On 2/24/2012 9:57 AM, Jim Rome wrote: >> Larry Hall (Cygwin<reply-to-list-only-lh<at> cygwin.com> writes: >>> >>> To the OP, run the same from an elevated prompt and these >>> errors should disappear. >>> >> >> I tried it also with windows style paths, both using \\ and / as >> separators with the same results. >> >> What does "to the OP" mean? And are you implying it has to be run >> as an administrator? MinGW does not require that. > > OP = Original Poster (see the cygwin standard acronyms :-) ) > > Yes, the responder *is* saying that you need to run this as > administrator.
No. He was saying that if you run *cygcheck* from an elevated prompt, you won't get the "Can't open service" errors. cheers, DaveK -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple