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Re: fetchmail pops up console windows
Gary,
On Tue, Jan 13, 2009 at 09:55:36AM -0800, Gary Johnson wrote:
> On 2009-01-13, Jason Tishler wrote:
> > FWIW, I don't have this problem when running fetchmail as a service.
>
> I saw that in an earlier post and tried to follow the instructions in
> /usr/share/doc/Cygwin/fetchmail-6.3.9.README, but I get this result:
>
> [snip]
>
> $ cygrunsrv -S fetchmail
> cygrunsrv: Error starting a service: StartService: Win32 error 1069:
> The service did not start due to a logon failure.
>
> I have both cron and sshd running as services, so that much works,
> but they may be running as the system user (whatever it's called).
> I don't know how to diagnose this sort of failure.
Did you heed the following from the README?
o the $USERDOMAIN\\$USERNAME account must have the "Log on as a
service" user right for Cygwin fetchmail to start as a NT service
Jason
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