X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Date: Wed, 01 Aug 2007 10:09:51 -0400 From: Jean-Claude Gervais Subject: Re: SSHD install problem - SOLVED In-reply-to: To: Cygwin Message-id: <1185977391.19569.0.camel@mercury.sprymusic> MIME-version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Evolution 2.8.3 Content-type: text/plain; CHARSET=US-ASCII Content-transfer-encoding: 7BIT References: <1185909695 DOT 7366 DOT 8 DOT camel AT mercury DOT sprymusic> <1185965084 DOT 5941 DOT 1 DOT camel AT mercury DOT sprymusic> X-IsSubscribed: yes Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help AT cygwin DOT com; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Id: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner AT cygwin DOT com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Thank you, Thorsten! That fixed the problem! TERRIFIC! Thanks again! J On Wed, 2007-08-01 at 12:07 +0100, Thorsten Kampe wrote: > * 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. > > > -- > 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/ > -- 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/