Hi, >Sorry, I thought when you started it manually you just typed: > >prompt>sshd > >So you are starting the service manually: > >prompt>cygrunsrv sshd
Actually, I am starting it through Control Panel or through 'net start sshd'. >and it works, but starting the service automatically fails? That sounds >like a problem with whatever version of XP you have Yes. The version of XP I have is XP Professional, release version. Note that others have reported this same problem with W2k, too, so I do not think it is XP-specific. One thing I noticed is: If I set a parameter to start a .bat file on service failure (first, second, subsequent) that will execute a 'net start sshd' and open notepad (that last to make it do something that I see), that .bat is never started. Very strange. So the service fails but does not report that properly to the OS? >, or something about the parameters that XP starts the service with. Have >you tried to uninstall sshd as a service, and install it with srvany or >firedaemon? I have. Specifying c:\cygwin\usr\sbin\sshd.exe as the app to be started, c:\cygwin\usr\sbin as the application directory, and -D as the application parameters, I get this: FireDaemon just crashes upon starting the service srvany says the service started okay. However, will srvany is running, sshd is not. So, sshd.exe needs some things to execute that neither FireDaemon nor srvany provide. Cheers Shawn -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Bug reporting: http://cygwin.com/bugs.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/
