I don't have a folder by that name. I have folder called apache-1.3.29-eapib and that's it. The puny Readme in that said nothing about running Apache as a service. Thanks anyway.
George Hester __________________________________ "Igor Pechtchanski" wrote in message news:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > George, > > Please (re)read /usr/share/doc/Cygwin/apache-1.3.29-1.README, which is the > official documentation for apache on Cygwin. Any other occurrences of > "Cygwin" in the Apache documentation should be considered incidental, and > are subsumed by that README. > Igor > > On Sun, 21 Mar 2004, George Hester wrote: > > > Hi Igor. Crap I messed up in my last post. Please do not read it. It > > will only upset you. > > > > I got the service to exist in the Services applet with: > > > > $cygrunsrv -I Apache -p /usr/sbin/httpd.exe -t auto > > > > but it does not behave as a normal service. A normal service set to > > auto will start with no user intervention at boot. But that is not the > > case here. I still have to fire up Cygwin into the bash shell from the > > desktop. And since I have to do that I see no real benefit in running > > the above Apache as a service. Should I start Cygwin as a Service also? > > > > George Hester > > __________________________________ > > "Igor Pechtchanski" wrote: > > > On Sat, 20 Mar 2004, George Hester wrote: > > > > > > > According to the documentation of starting the Apache web server as a > > > > service in cygwin the generic formula is: > > > > > > > > $ cygrunsrv -I service_name-p /usr/local/apache/bin/httpd.exe [-a arguments] \ > > > ^ this should be a space > > > > [-e VAR=VALUE] [-t auto|manual] [-u user] [-w passwd] > > > > > > > > So I did this in the bash shell: > > > > > > > > $cygrunsrv -I Apache 1.3-p /usr/sbin/httpd.exe -t auto > > > ^ you need a space here > > > > > > > Same thing with: > > > > $cygrunsrv -I Apache 1.3-p /usr/sbin/httpd.exe-t auto > > > ^ here ^ and here > > > > > > > The result was the error I posted in the subject. What did I do wromg? > > > > > > See above (you need to put a space before each -* flag). > > > 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/
