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Re: Cygwin services using uid 400, not SYSTEM. Why?


Hi again,

On 7/20/2006 1:30 AM, Shaddy Baddah wrote:
I'm so sorry I didn't pick up on this earlier. Thanks for your attention. If you have any ideas on the UID 400 problem, I'd still be very interested to hear what was happening on that.

One last bit of diagnosis. In my earlier email, I claimed that the displaying of UID 400 instead of SYSTEM was solved after running cygserver-config.


Well, I got a little muddled. I finally got back to the original system that I experienced the problem on (now perhaps not really so much a problem as I thought. I'll elaborate).

The attachment is a log of commands that I executed that highlights the problem very clearly. You will see that after running *exim-config* (not cygserver-config), the Cygwin services correctly display as uid SYSTEM, and not 400.

Looking at the exim-config script, I am totally bewildered how this could have had any effect on the problem. It looks quite tame (in terms of editing rights, etc...). Perhaps someone might have better insight into this.

I am now also not so sure that the processes showing UID 400 was really a problem in the first place. In my earlier email, inetd was not working because of an unrelated problem. I am actually trying to reproduce the problem now, and just ascertain if there was a *rights* problem associated, as it did very much appear to me to be earlier.

Regards,
Shaddy

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