I've given up (for now) on the sshd service and am running it via inetd -- no more service startup timeouts and I can still use keys.
Peter Buckley wrote: > Comments inline- > > Shawn Behrens wrote: > >> 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. >> > > > The problem may not be XP specific, but it does seem to not be just > sshd or cygrunsrv, since other people have it working on XP, Win2k, > etc. My WG is that there is some sort of setting on Win2k or XP that > decides how it will start/handle services, and that setting on your > machine isn't kopasetic with sshd/cygrunsrv. I just have no idea what > the setting might be :-) > > Have you tried starting other cygwin services, like inetd? I don't > remember if we discussed it before, but it might be a helpful test to > see if inetd works or not- inetd installs as a service differently > than sshd IIRC, inetd --install-as-service. > > I saw something recently about making sure that the service was starting > cygrunsrv and not sshd- it was in the context of editing the registry. > I guess that your "Cygwin SSHD" service should start cygrunsrv, and then > cygrunsrv should take the path to sshd as an argument. > HTH, > > Peter > > >> 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/
