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Date:	Tue, 8 Jun 2004 21:57:24 -0400 (EDT)
From:	Igor Pechtchanski <pechtcha AT cs DOT nyu DOT edu>
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To:	cygwin AT equate DOT f9 DOT co DOT uk
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Subject:	RE: sshD fails to start as a service
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On Wed, 9 Jun 2004, cygwin wrote:

> > On Mon, Jun 07, 2004 at 11:50:40PM +0100, cygwin AT XXXXXX DOT XX DOT XX DOT XX wrote:
> > > sshd : PID 3576 : starting service `sshd' failed: execv: 255, error 255.
> >
> > I've encountered such problems when the binaries and
> > libraries were not
> > executable by SYSTEM. "chmod 755 /usr/sbin/* /usr/bin/*" fixed the
> > problem.
> >
> > With kind regards,
> > Baurjan.
>
> Cheers for the response, but having just attempted this, I still get the
> same error..
>
> Any further ideas?
> Anyone?
>
> It is rather annoying, especially as I can manually start sshd and it works
> fine..
>
> Chris

You have user mounts instead of system ones.  Re-mount all your mounts as
system mounts, and it should work.  Below is probably the shortest way of
doing this:

eval "`mount -m | sed 's/ -u / -s /'`"

HTH,
	Igor
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