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On Mon, Jul 14, 2008 at 03:28:12PM -0700, Dave Latham wrote:
>It worked.  I thought that when I deleted the Software\Cygnus
>Solutions registry entries under HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE and
>HKEY_CURRENT_USER (after reading that FAQ item earlier) that it
>removed all the registry entries, but doing both that and umount -A
>cause it to work.  Perhaps there were entries elsewhere in the tree.

The FAQ actually tells you to type "umount -A" and that is the preferred
way of removing things from the registry.

>Thanks so much for the info and taking the time to respond!
>
>Now if I can only get sshd to work properly -- but I haven't exhausted
>my non-mailing list help sources on that one yet...

The biggest source of help should be the documentation in
/usr/share/doc/Cygwin .

cgf

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