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Date:	Wed, 4 May 2005 09:35:18 -0400 (EDT)
From:	Igor Pechtchanski <pechtcha AT cs DOT nyu DOT edu>
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Subject:	Re: CYGWIN sshd service could not be started
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On Wed, 4 May 2005, Corinna Vinschen wrote:

> On May  3 15:57, Igor Pechtchanski wrote:
> > You probably want to reverse the test, e.g.,
> >
> > --- ssh-host-config.orig	2005-05-02 13:09:13.984375000 -0700
> > +++ ssh-host-config	2005-05-02 13:23:50.640625000 -0700
> > @@ -583,6 +583,16 @@
> >  	chown "${_user}".544 ${LOCALSTATEDIR}/log/sshd.log
> >        fi
> >      fi
> > +    if ! mount | egrep -q 'on /(|usr/(bin|lib)) type system'
> > +    then
> > +      echo
> > +      echo "Warning: It appears that you have user mode mounts (\"Just me\""
> > +      echo "chosen during install.)  Any daemons installed as services will"
> > +      echo "fail to function unless system mounts are used.  To change this,"
> > +      echo "re-run setup.exe and choose \"All users\"."
> > +      echo
> > +      echo "For more information, see http://cygwin.com/faq/faq0.html#TOC33"
> > +    fi
> >    fi
> >  fi

I'm guessing the above is acceptable?

> > In the future versions, we should also check for user mounts for the
> > SYSTEM user -- unlikely, but very nasty and hard to detect.  I also
> > wonder if the above test should go into configurations for all
> > services, or perhaps even added to cygrunsrv in some form...
>
> Well, you know the acronym for this... ;-)

Oh, you mean <http://cygwin.com/acronyms/#BWAM>? ;-)
I know someone will have to do that, just wanted to put that one in the
archives.
	Igor
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