Re: cannot start sshd on cygwin- win xp

"jameshanley39@xxxxxxxxxxx" <jameshanley39@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

Darren Dunham wrote:

jameshanley39@xxxxxxxxxxx <jameshanley39@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
$ net start sshd
The CYGWIN sshd service is starting.
The CYGWIN sshd service was started successfully.


Current user@minitough ~
$ net start sshd
The CYGWIN sshd service is starting.
The CYGWIN sshd service was started successfully.

It doesn`t show in netstat. maybe it isn`T menat to ?

It is meant to. I'm supposing that the start is failing. Perhaps (as
an administrator) you could try /usr/sbin/sshd -d and see if you see
any error messages.

I don`t know if it writes errors to a file somewhere - I doubt it `cos
*nix philosophy. But nothing comes on the screen.

Messages (if any) are written to Windows' eventlog:
control panel-administration-eventlog-applications
unless you also run cygwin's syslog-ng, see the thread beginning with
news:1190772415.045717.281010@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx


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