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Date: Sun, 11 Sep 2005 20:35:56 -0400
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From: Evan Cooch <cooch17 AT verizon DOT net>
Subject: Re: sshd install problems | WinXP Pro system
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>
> >> Other than that, look at your event log and see if there is any further
> >> information about the failed service startup.
> >
> > Nothing...
>
>Nothing?  On a working sshd service I get the start and stop events.

If it was working, I wouldn't be bothering the list with this! ;-)



>[snip]
> > OK - now I know what you're after. I re-downloaded setup.exe, ran it,
> > and tried BOTH text, and binmode (i.e., tried it with text mode - then
> > after deleting c:\cygwin, tried again with binmode).
>
>Don't try text mode.

When in doubt try everything. Turns out it didn't matter.



> >
> > When I run ssh-host-config -d (i.e., in debug mode) as suggested, there
> > was nothing obvious about why it exited - there were no error messages
> > at all. It simply said I was finished.  Is there a log file I should
> > look at (and post here) that might help suss out what its not working?
>
>Post the last lines of that debug run, let's see were it ended and we can
>probably deduce what went wrong.

OK - I'll do that tomorrow. Thanks.



> > So, I'm wondering if at this point I should manually do what
> > ssh-host-config is apparently refusing to do - if this is an option,
> > could someone provide the basic steps?
>
>Follow Chris advice, if ssh-host-config fails then post the last lines of the
>debug output and lets start again from there.
>--
>René Berber
>
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