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Re: CYGWIN sshd service could not be started
On May 3 10:54, Corinna Vinschen wrote:
> 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.
Well... not exactly. The problem is that if somebody has user *and*
system mounts, the warning will be printed nevertheless. It's not quite
that simple.
Corinna
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