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Re: Trailing commandline arguments not allowed.


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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