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From: Thorsten Kampe <thorsten AT thorstenkampe DOT de>
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Date:  Wed, 1 Aug 2007 12:07:08 +0100
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* Jean-Claude Gervais (Wed, 01 Aug 2007 06:44:44 -0400)
> Thank you very much for trying to help me, I appreciate it. I have tried
> many different things to get this working including erasing my old
> cygwin folder and reinstalling cygwin.
> 
> The instruction you supplied executes without error, but when I try to
> start the sshd service, it still will not start and looking in
> the /var/log/sshd.log file, I still see the same error message.

Try "chown SYSTEM /var/empty" and "chmod 700 /var/empty". Sshd logs 
also to the event logs.


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