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Date: Tue, 3 May 2005 11:05:04 +0200
From: Corinna Vinschen <corinna-cygwin AT cygwin DOT com>
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Subject: Re: CYGWIN sshd service could not be started
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On May  3 10:54, Corinna Vinschen wrote:
> On May  2 13:25, Brian Dessent wrote:
> > Brian Dessent wrote:
> > 
> > > (It would probably be a good addition for ssh-host-config to check for
> > > user mounts and bail or offer to remount them... this seems to come up a
> > > lot.)
> > 
> > Here is a patch against ssh-host-config that checks for this.
> > 
> > Brian
> > --- ssh-host-config.orig	2005-05-02 13:09:13.984375000 -0700
> > +++ ssh-host-config	2005-05-02 13:23:50.640625000 -0700
> > @@ -583,6 +583,16 @@
> >  	chown "${_user}".544 ${LOCALSTATEDIR}/log/sshd.log
> >        fi
> >      fi
> > +    if mount | egrep -q 'on /(|usr/(bin|lib)) type user'
> > +    then
> > +      echo
> > +      echo "Warning: It appears that you have user mode mounts (\"Just me\""
> > +      echo "chosen during install.)  Any daemons installed as services will"
> > +      echo "fail to function unless system mounts are used.  To change this,"
> > +      echo "re-run setup.exe and choose \"All users\"."
> > +      echo
> > +      echo "For more information, see http://cygwin.com/faq/faq0.html#TOC33"
> > +    fi
> >    fi
> >  fi
> 
> Good idea.  I'll add this to the script for the next version.

Well... not exactly.  The problem is that if somebody has user *and*
system mounts, the warning will be printed nevertheless.  It's not quite
that simple.


Corinna

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