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Re: CYGWIN sshd service could not be started


On May  2 13:25, Brian Dessent wrote:
> Brian Dessent wrote:
> 
> > (It would probably be a good addition for ssh-host-config to check for
> > user mounts and bail or offer to remount them... this seems to come up a
> > lot.)
> 
> Here is a patch against ssh-host-config that checks for this.
> 
> Brian
> --- ssh-host-config.orig	2005-05-02 13:09:13.984375000 -0700
> +++ ssh-host-config	2005-05-02 13:23:50.640625000 -0700
> @@ -583,6 +583,16 @@
>  	chown "${_user}".544 ${LOCALSTATEDIR}/log/sshd.log
>        fi
>      fi
> +    if mount | egrep -q 'on /(|usr/(bin|lib)) type user'
> +    then
> +      echo
> +      echo "Warning: It appears that you have user mode mounts (\"Just me\""
> +      echo "chosen during install.)  Any daemons installed as services will"
> +      echo "fail to function unless system mounts are used.  To change this,"
> +      echo "re-run setup.exe and choose \"All users\"."
> +      echo
> +      echo "For more information, see http://cygwin.com/faq/faq0.html#TOC33";
> +    fi
>    fi
>  fi

Good idea.  I'll add this to the script for the next version.


Corinna

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