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 Date: Sun, 11 Sep 2005 15:25:15 -0400 From: Evan Cooch Subject: Re: sshd install problems | WinXP Pro system In-reply-to: To: =?iso-8859-1?Q?Ren=E9?= Berber , cygwin@cygwin.com Message-id: <6.2.3.4.2.20050911152030.0219eb50@incoming.verizon.net> MIME-version: 1.0 Content-type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed References: <6.2.3.4.2.20050910165424.021e07d0@postoffice6.mail.cornell.edu> <1n6sbhsmwx7w5$.hfhczdqig0oy.dlg@40tude.net> <6.2.3.4.2.20050911122244.021db900@incoming.verizon.net> X-IsSubscribed: yes > > > As above - if not, then why specify it in > > http://pigtail.net/LRP/printsrv/cygwin-sshd.html > >That page is made by somebody that is not in the Cygwin team, it may >be correct >or not (the points marked as "not necessary" by Thorsten are really not >necessary but they don't interfere) but you are asking the Cygwin list not the >author of that page, so: Fair enough - whats bizarre then is why 90% or so of the Google hits out there point to this page, and not to anything on the Cygwin list (that I found). Perhaps this is the sort of page the someone who is involved with Cygwin should put together, given the frequency with which it seems to come up. >Follow the instructions in C:\Cygwin\usr\share\doc\Cygwin\openssh.README, that >is the official documentation. OK - thanks. I'll have a look. >Other than that, look at your event log and see if there is any further >information about the failed service startup. Will do. >You mention "host-ssh-config", is that a typo? the script is named >"ssh-host-config". Whoops - yup. > Its failure is very strange, perhaps you have a corrupted >installation, you are not using text mode, are you? (in setup you >have to select >if Cygwin is installed for all users or not, text- or bin-mode, best >results are >with "for all" and "binmode (a.k.a. Unix)"). Selected for all users. Was never asked about text- or bin-mode. Re-installed twice on suspicion it might be corruption problem - same result on both occasions. It installed fine, but then when running ssh-host-config, it simply asked about privelage separation. Nothing more. >You should run ssh-host-config in debug mode (i.e. ssh-host-config -d) and see >what was the last thing it did, why did it exit? was there an error message? > >HTH Thanks - I'll follow those suggestions and report back. -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/