Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin@cygwin.com To: cygwin@cygwin.com From: "George Hester" Subject: Re: Trailing commandline arguments not allowed. Date: Mon, 22 Mar 2004 20:54:18 -0500 Organization: Home Lines: 60 Message-ID: References: Reply-To: "George Hester" Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: alb-24-195-115-198.nycap.rr.com X-Newsreader: Microsoft Outlook Express 5.50.4922.1500 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-MIME-Autoconverted: from quoted-printable to 8bit by delorie.com id i2N1u2Vf018156 Well all I know is I have had to put in a completely new Cygwin. After that Apache is working again. Needless to say I will not try running again as a service until I can find a foolproof way of installing it. One that works and allows Apache to keep working. Thanks Ivan. I'll just use it the way it is for now. -- George Hester __________________________________ "Igor Pechtchanski" wrote in message news:Pine.GSO.4.56.0403220816160.26885@slinky.cs.nyu.edu... > On Mon, 22 Mar 2004, George Hester wrote: > > > http.log > > > > fopen: Permission denied > > httpd: could not open error log file /var/log/apache/error_log. > > fopen: Permission denied > > httpd: could not open error log file /var/log/apache/error_log. > > fopen: Permission denied > > httpd: could not open error log file /var/log/apache/error_log. > > > > > > Apachehttpd.log > > fopen: Permission denied > > httpd: could not open error log file /var/log/apache/error_log. > > > > Apache.log > > fopen: Permission denied > > httpd: could not open error log file /var/log/apache/error_log. > > fopen: Permission denied > > httpd: could not open error log file /var/log/apache/error_log. > > > > Looks to me the change I made resulted in the loss of permissions. I > > have uninstalled and reinstalled and uninstalled and reinstalled and > > Apache. Still broke. > > Right -- these files aren't created as part of the Apache install. Did > you try "chmod a+rw /var/log/apache/*"? > > I suspect that what happened was: the files got created when you ran httpd > from the command line (with your userid as the owner); then, when you > installed it as a service, the logs didn't get re-created, and SYSTEM > couldn't write to them... > Igor > -- > http://cs.nyu.edu/~pechtcha/ > |\ _,,,---,,_ pechtcha@cs.nyu.edu > ZZZzz /,`.-'`' -. ;-;;,_ igor@watson.ibm.com > |,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/