service interact with desktop broken between: 1.5.5 & 1.5.19

[Alexander J. Herrmann]

And your Environment variable CYGWIN is set to server
export CYGWIN=server
No more idea's beside this so far.
Alex
http://www.aiengine.org



Steven Hartland wrote:

> No one got any ideas why this has been broken?
>
> ----- Original Message ----- From: "Steven Hartland" 
> <killing@multiplay.co.uk>
>
>
>> We've been using 1.5.5 for a good long while now and
>> have had cause to upgrade. Everything apart from service
>> interact with desktop is working. I've dug as much as I
>> can but found nothing. The pervious working version was
>> 1.5.5 and the new version 1.5.19. I've attached cygcheck
>> for both.
>>
>> Originally I thought it must be something related to
>> cygrunsvr but even replacing that with the version from
>> 1.5.5 makes no difference so it must be something more
>> core that I'm missing.
>>
>> I think I had a similar problem before with 1.5.5 which
>> got round by using a services which started cmd first see
>> example below.
>>
>> The overall objective is to run a perl script on the desktop
>> that doesn't log to file just displays its output in a normal
>> console.
>>
>> I've tried the following combinations:
>>
>> cygrunsrv -I test \
>>   -j -i -d "CYGWIN test" \
>>   -p /tmp/test.pl \
>>   -e "CYGWIN=ntsec" \
>>   -e "BASH_ENV=~/.bashrc"
>>
>> **used to work in 1.5.5**
>> cygrunsrv -I test \
>>   -j -i -d "CYGWIN test" \
>>   -p `cygpath $COMSPEC` \
>>   -a "/c bash -c /tmp/test.pl" \
>>   -e "CYGWIN=ntsec" \
>>   -e "BASH_ENV=~/.bashrc"
>>
>> N.B. -j doesn't seem to have any affect and wasn't used in 1.5.5
>>
>> Any ideas what might be causing this or how to fix it?
>
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