X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Date: Wed, 27 Sep 2006 09:41:10 -0400 (EDT) From: Igor Peshansky Reply-To: cygwin@cygwin.com To: Dave Korn cc: cygwin@cygwin.com Subject: Re: FW: Potential bug in sshd In-Reply-To: <009601c6e226$fa22d820$a501a8c0@CAM.ARTIMI.COM> Message-ID: References: <009601c6e226$fa22d820$a501a8c0@CAM.ARTIMI.COM> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Unsubscribe: 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 On Wed, 27 Sep 2006, Dave Korn wrote: > > I was sent the following mail off-list, and am forwarding it (with > permission), because it contains a useful workaround for people having > problems with McAffee: disable the "buffer overrun protection". > > On 27 September 2006 11:40, Michael Teske wrote: > > > Hi! > > > > I'm not subscribed to the cygwin mailing list but found your message in > > http://www.mail-archive.com/cygwin@cygwin.com/msg72341.html > > while searching "linked dll data write copy failed" on google. I just > > wanted to report a similar problem, that happens if sshd runs together > > with McAffee virus checker. Somehow then sshd has the same problems - > > only after reboot, not if restarted later. The problems vanish if one > > disables the "buffer overrun protection". > > My suspicion is that this happens because sshd is started before the > > McAffee service and thus McAffee gets confused. Unfortunately there's no > > way to determine the starting order of services... > > > > Greetings, > > Michael > > > Not being a McAffee user[*], (and not often running a sshd on my own > box), I haven't been able to test this, but it seems worth trying for > anyone who's having sshd problems that might be related. > > cheers, > DaveK > > [*] - to put it mildly! FWIW, there *is* a way to determine the starting order of services -- make one depend on the other. So, in this case, add McAfee to the dependencies of the sshd service (using the -y cygrunsrv option). Dave, I can't Cc: Michael, and he's not on-list -- can you forward this to him or point him at the archived message? Igor -- http://cs.nyu.edu/~pechtcha/ |\ _,,,---,,_ pechtcha@cs.nyu.edu | igor@watson.ibm.com ZZZzz /,`.-'`' -. ;-;;,_ Igor Peshansky, Ph.D. (name changed!) |,4- ) )-,_. ,\ ( `'-' old name: Igor Pechtchanski '---''(_/--' `-'\_) fL a.k.a JaguaR-R-R-r-r-r-.-.-. Meow! "Las! je suis sot... -Mais non, tu ne l'es pas, puisque tu t'en rends compte." "But no -- you are no fool; you call yourself a fool, there's proof enough in that!" -- Rostand, "Cyrano de Bergerac" -- 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/