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Re: Start sshd server on reinstallation


On Sat, Jan 07, 2006 at 07:19:32PM -0800, Yitzchak Scott-Thoennes wrote:
> On Sat, Jan 07, 2006 at 07:09:14PM -0800, Brian Dessent wrote:
> > Ordinary Olson wrote:
> > 
> > >         I recently installed cygwin to my C drive ? however
> > > after realizing its size, I decided to move it to the
> > > D drive. So I stopped the sshd server that I had
> > > running, deleted the registry keys under
> > > `HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE' and `HKEY_CURRENT_USER? and then
> > > just deleted the C:\cygwin directory.
> > >
> > > 
> > >         I then reinstalled cygwin in the D drive, edited my
> > > start menu to point to them. However I have problems
> > > starting the sshd server. I have already
> > > ssh-host-config and ssh-user-config completed.
> > 
> > The reason that your sshd service will not start is because you did not
> > remove the service, and the one currently installed still points to the
> > old location.  ssh-host-config will not overwrite an existing service,
> > so you need to remove the service and re-run the script.
> 
> Remove the service with cygrunsrv -U sshd

Ack! I don't know where I got that; -U should be -R.


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