On my cygwin installation, cygrunsrv fails when trying to start sshd. Fresh windows and cygwin install. The computer was working fine with a similar set-up until I had a non-cygwin related system issue which forced a reinstall.
If I installed Windows XP SP3 directly and then tried to get sshd working via
ssh-host-config, cygrunsrv -S sshd returns:
$ cygrunsrv --start sshd
cygrunsrv: Error starting a service: QueryServiceStatus: Win32 error 1053:
The service did not respond to the start or control request in a timely
fashion.
Removing XP SP3 and starting with an install of XP SP2 and cygwin - sshd runs
fine, even right after Windows upgraded itself to SP3 via AutoUpdates.
Today, 24 hours after the AutoUpdate to SP3, sshd again fails in the same
manner.
Removing sshd (cygrunsrv --remove sshd) and re-running ssh-host-config now
gives the error that the permissions on the directory /var are not correct.
output of ls -ld /var:
$ ls -ld /var
drwxrwx---+ 8 computerADMIN Users 0 Sep 28 22:26 /var/
So, I chmod'd /var to match the error message from ssh-host-config:
$ chmod a-rw /var
$ chmod a+xt /var
$ ls -ld /var
d--x--x--t+ 8 computerADMIN Users 0 Sep 28 22:26 /var/
Same error:
$ cygrunsrv -S sshd
cygrunsrv: Error starting a service: QueryServiceStatus: Win32 error 1053:
The service did not respond to the start or control request in a timely
fashion.
My only other thought was to check the permissions on /var/empty, which are
currently:
$ ls -ld /var/empty
drwxr-xr-x+ 2 SYSTEM root 0 Sep 28 22:26 /var/empty/
Don't know if that's good or not.
cygcheck.out attached.
Thanks,
Jonathan
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