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 Message-Id: <6.2.3.4.2.20050911203442.0203a008@incoming.verizon.net> Date: Sun, 11 Sep 2005 20:35:56 -0400 To: =?iso-8859-1?Q?Ren=E9?= Berber , cygwin@cygwin.com From: Evan Cooch Subject: Re: sshd install problems | WinXP Pro system In-Reply-To: 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> <6.2.3.4.2.20050911155815.021d6080@incoming.verizon.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1"; format=flowed X-IsSubscribed: yes Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-MIME-Autoconverted: from quoted-printable to 8bit by delorie.com id j8C0aEXv030156 > > > >> 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 > > >-- >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/ -- 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/