Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin@cygwin.com Reply-To: From: "Pablo Milano" To: "Max Bowsher" , Subject: RE: openssh 3.4p1-4. Error starting sshd service Date: Tue, 30 Jul 2002 10:34:26 -0300 Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 (Normal) X-MSMail-Priority: Normal Importance: Normal X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.50.4807.1700 In-Reply-To: <009401c23756$03fdb930$0100a8c0@wdg.uk.ibm.com> /var/lohg/ssh.log says: "Bad owner or mode for /var/empty" Inside Cygwin, I see this owner and modes for that directory: drwxr-xr-x 2 Administ Administ 0 Jul 29 17:58 empty In the windows side, the directory has the "everybody - Full control" ACL. The same thing happened in another windows machine when upgrading from Openssh 3.0.2-p15 to Openssh3.4p1-4 -----Mensaje original----- De: Max Bowsher [mailto:maxb@ukf.net] Enviado el: Lunes, 29 de Julio de 2002 20:13 Para: pablo.milano@datatransfer.com.ar; cygwin@cygwin.com Asunto: Re: openssh 3.4p1-4. Error starting sshd service Pablo Milano wrote: > I upgraded to openssh 3.4p1-4, and after installing it, I get the > following error when trying to start the openssh service: > > *********************************************************** > The CYGWIN sshd service is starting. > The CYGWIN sshd service could not be started. > > The service did not report an error. > > More help is available by typing NET HELPMSG 3534 > *********************************************************** > > I tried removing the service with cygrunsrv.exe -R sshd and then re- > running ssh-host-config, bit I got the same error. > I tried also uninstalling and re-installing the packages and even > removing all cygwin entries from the registry, but I couldn't succeed. > Any hints? That was a bit drastic! You might find a helpful error message in /var/log/sshd.log Max. -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Bug reporting: http://cygwin.com/bugs.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/