Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@sourceware.cygnus.com; run by ezmlm List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@sources.redhat.com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin@sources.redhat.com From: "Gerrit P. Haase" Organization: Esse keine toten Tiere To: Cygwin Mailinglist Date: Fri, 7 Sep 2001 22:24:56 +0200 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-transfer-encoding: 7BIT Subject: Re: changing path for services on Win2K Reply-to: cygwin@cygwin.com Message-ID: <3B994938.13815.11A62456@localhost> In-reply-to: <2fchptkump7c87vq2nlk1d8mu0cfu4eleb@4ax.com> X-mailer: Pegasus Mail for Win32 (v3.12cDE) X-Hops: 1 X-Sender: 320081107336-0001@t-dialin.net Mark Himsley schrieb am 2001-09-07, 12:47: >Hi, > >I don't know if this is just my lack on knowledge on Windows NT platforms, >but how do I change the value of the PATH environment variable which >services like inetd, sshd, crond etc... use. > >I have altered the system PATH variable in "My computer | Properties | >Advanced | Environmental Variables" and stopped & restarted those services >but they don't seem to pick up the change until a reboot occurs. > >I suspect its just a Windows thing, but I was wondering if I had missed >something. > >Thanks in advance. I suggest if you're changing the PATH setting, you need to 1. reinstall the service or 2. reboot Other option is to give it as an option to cygrunsrv, so it depends not on the environment settings. Useful for setting CYGWIN=tty binmode ntsec and maybe PATH=/bin:... if you need some other directories. $ cygrunsrv --help Usage: cygrunsrv [OPTION]... [...] Miscellaneous install options: [...] -e, --env Optional environment strings which are added to the environment when service is started. You can add up to 255 environment strings using the `--env' option. Note: /bin is always added to $PATH to allow all started applications to find at least cygwin1.dll. [...] Gerrit -- =^..^= -- 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/