Mail Archives: cygwin/2004/04/19/23:18:55
At 10:47 PM 4/19/2004, you wrote:
>Since the topic is a patch to setup.exe, let me restate an earlier oversight
>with it that I mentioned, and add a new one I've discovered through hours of
>trial and error...
>
>The first of these is an issue with changing the install options from
>"default" on 'All' to "Install". When you do this, setup.exe poorly decides
>that you don't need "base-files" or "aspell-dev", and only those two, which
>results in a broken install.
>
>Secondly, and this one took me hours on end, and still not completely
>resolved, when you install Cygwin you're given the option to install for
>"All Users" or "Just Me". Off hand I don't know what the default is, but
>apparently when I installed it "Just Me" was selected. I know this, because
>when you do this it hoses up the permissions to /var/log so that sshd can't
>write to it's log file at all, and hence will not start.
"All Users" creates all the necessary default mount points for all users.
"Just Me" creates them just for the user that installs Cygwin. Without
the mount points for all users ('mount -s'), services generally won't start
because they don't have access to those necessary mounts. This doesn't
directly affect the permissions on particular directories though.
>Being on 'XP Home' I still can't get sshd to run as a service, but at least
>crond will and I can use it to make sure that sshd is running. I think I
>know a fix for that too, though, just haven't yet had the chance or pressing
>desire to test it, especially now that I can run it through crond.
Sounds like a sshd configuration problem.
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