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Brett Serkez wrote:
>>>I wonder if it would be worth having ssh-host-config set tcpip as a
>>>dependancy for sshd on all systems? While this doesn't seem to have
>>>cropped up much, specifically, it couldn't hurt..
>>
>>This has been discussed before, see
>><http://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/2005-12/msg00089.html>.  I guess it's the
>>case of <http://cygwin.com/acronyms/#SHTDI> and
>><http://cygwin.com/acronyms/#PTC>.
> 
> 
> The discussion message 89 above references ZoneAlarm (vsmon).  A
> dependency in that case could hurt as if sshd were dependent upon vsmon,
> should vsmon be stopped, sshd would also stop.  With ZoneAlarm, it is
> likely this will happen from time to time, the user would have to
> know/remember to restart sshd.
> 
> This problem isn't limited to tcpip or ZoneAlarm, it could be any
> firewall.
> 
> Rather than having ssh-host-config account for all possibilities,
> perhaps it could simply issue a warning on the topic and refer the
> installer back to this mailing list?
> 
> Brett

I don't think that's unreasonable for some cases, ZA being one of them,
but given that if the tcpip service is stopped there's no network to
speak of, i don't think it's unreasonable to make sshd depend on it..
Not that I know everything about these things or anything..


Chris

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