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From: "George Hester" <hesterloli@hotmail.com>
Subject: Re: Trailing commandline arguments not allowed.
Date: Sun, 21 Mar 2004 19:49:26 -0500
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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
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"Igor Pechtchanski"  wrote in message news:Pine.GSO.4.56.0403211254080.26885@slinky.cs.nyu.edu...
> 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
> 
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