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Date:	Sat, 22 Feb 2003 21:59:46 -0500 (EST)
From:	Igor Pechtchanski <pechtcha AT cs DOT nyu DOT edu>
Reply-To:	cygwin AT cygwin DOT com
To:	"Pierre A. Humblet" <Pierre DOT Humblet AT ieee DOT org>
cc:	cygwin AT cygwin DOT com
Subject:	Re: sshd fills syslog on Win98
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On Sat, 22 Feb 2003, Pierre A. Humblet wrote:

> On Win98 sshd fills syslog with error lines such as
>
> 2003-02-22 18:33:26 : sshd : PID 213289 : LOG_ERR :
>  error: Failed to disconnect from controlling tty.
> 2003-02-22 18:33:32 : sshd : PID 771213 : LOG_INFO :
>  syslogin_perform_logout: logout() returned an error
>
> *****
> The first seems to originate from sshpty.c
>         if (setsid() < 0)
>                 error("setsid: %.100s", strerror(errno));
>
>         /*
>          * Verify that we are successfully disconnected from the controlling
>          * tty.
>          */
>         fd = open(_PATH_TTY, O_RDWR | O_NOCTTY);
>         if (fd >= 0) {
>                 error("Failed to disconnect from controlling tty.");
>                 close(fd);
>         }
> *******
> The second from loginrec.c
>
> static int
> syslogin_perform_logout(struct logininfo *li)
> {
>         (void)line_stripname(line, li->line, sizeof(line));
>
>         if (!logout(line)) {
>                 log("syslogin_perform_logout: logout() returned an error");
>
> Pierre

I've reported the same thing happening on Win2k, see
<http://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/2003-02/msg00546.html>.
	Igor
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