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Date: Sat, 6 Nov 2004 11:30:57 +0100
From: Walter Garcia-Fontes <walter DOT garcia AT upf DOT edu>
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Subject: Re: Cannot start sshd service
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* Igor Pechtchanski <pechtcha AT cs DOT nyu DOT edu> [041105 19:54]:
> On Fri, 5 Nov 2004, Walter Garcia-Fontes wrote ([snip]ped):
> 
> > Here I answer to all the suggestions of Gerrit and Igor:
> >
> > Igor Pechtchanski <pechtcha at cs dot nyu dot edu> [041105 10:23]:
> > > On Thu, 4 Nov 2004, Walter Garcia-Fontes wrote:
> > >
> > > > I'd appreciate any hint to solve the following problem:
> > > >
> > > > I get the "Could not start sshd service on Local Computer. Error 1067:
> > > > The process terminated unexpectedly." I've seen some reports on this
> > > > in the archives, but none of the solutions suggested worked for me.Here
> > > > is the status of my installation:
> > > >[snip]
> 
> Wrong log ("system"?).  Look in the "application" log...
> 

Chapeau Igor! Here was the problem. I checked the "application log"
and found:

The description for Event ID ( 0 ) in Source ( sshd ) cannot be found.
The local computer may not have the necessary registry information or
message DLL files to display messages from a remote computer. The
following information is part of the event: sshd : PID 3468 : starting
service `a' failed: redirect_fd: open (1, /var/log/sshd.log): 13,
Permission denied.

So I went to /var/log and saw that sshd.log belonged to the SYSTEM
account, but was not writable. Making it writable solved the problem. 

Cheers!

-- 
Walter Garcia-Fontes               
Barcelona


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