Re: problem installing cygwin+sshd

Michael wrote: ... > $ /usr/sbin/sshd -D -ddd ... > /var/empty must be owned by root and not group or world-writable. ... Nowhere. "/var/empty must be owned by root and not group or world- writable" - that's pretty clear, isn't it?! I've already recognized this message, but as I wanted to c

Re: Still seeing "Win32 error 1062" starting sshd with "cygrunsrv -S" with openssh-4.5p1-1. Suggestions, please?

sshd is very picky about file permissions and ownership. I had a hard time setting it up on one box, but luckily I had it working on another, and by comparing, I finally got it working. I can't remember the details, but one was getting /var/empty owned by SYSTEM. Brian Kasper wrote: Hoping

Re: shopt igncr not working

I was writing a similar email when I got Rob's... I was surprised when all my bash scripts failed after I upgraded (because of the CR/LF change). One of the most important rules of a stable product is backwards compatibility. I cannot track down every bash script and add "shopt -s igncr", an