Hello, As with many others on this list, I've encountered the following seemingly inexplicable message....
cygrunsrv: Error starting a service: QueryServiceStatus: Win32 error 1062: The service has not been started. ...when trying to start sshd (OpenSSH_3.5p1) on Win2K after installing per the instructions at http://tech.erdelynet.com/cygwin-sshd.html. Another clue was the following entry in the event log: Event Type: Error Event Source: sshd Event Category: None Event ID: 0 Date: 2/7/2003 Time: 9:57:45 AM User: NT AUTHORITY\SYSTEM Computer: PILGRIM Description: The description for Event ID ( 0 ) in Source ( sshd ) cannot be found. The local computer may not have the necessary registry information or message DLL files to display messages from a remote computer. The following information is part of the event: sshd : Win32 Process Id = 0x740 : Cygwin Process Id = 0x740 : starting service `l' failed: redirect_fd: open (1, /var/log/sshd.log): 13, Permission denied. So it appeared (after browsing the source code) that cygrunsrv's function redirect_fd() was encountering an error attempting to open a file descriptor for /var/log/sshd.log.... Browsing through all the perm bits didn't show any obvious issues (all dirs 755, and sshd.log owned and rw by SYSTEM), and I spent a number of hours reading posts in the archives to no avail. Finally, I tried to look at it from a WinNT admin perspective and instead of using bash/Cygwin, checked permissions via Windows Explorer. Nothing obvious here.... but just for the sake of experiment, I used the "properties | Security" dialogue to explicitly add Full Control for the SYSTEM user to: C:\Cygwin C:\Cygwin\var C:\Cygwin\var\log IT WORKED! I can now successfully start up sshd as a service. I haven't seen this approach in the archive, so I figured I'd contribute my $0.02. - Evers ===== ----- Evers J. Ding [EMAIL PROTECTED] __________________________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Mail Plus - Powerful. Affordable. Sign up now. http://mailplus.yahoo.com -- 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/
