Karl M wrote: > I tracked it down. It is not a problem with keychain, openssh or cygwin. > > Occasionally, on this particular laptop (XP SP2), the user can reboot, log > in and start a bash shell before all of the services are running or while > they are still starting. Gotta love Microsoft. So that was causing the > problem.
You can solve this by using the --dep option of cygrunsrv when you install the service. For example I use "--dep Tcpip" or "--dep dnscache" for Cygwin services that depend on TCP/IP networking and/or name resolution. Brian -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/