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Re: Problem running sshd as service under firedaemon


Hi Richard...

Run sshd with the -D option when running as a service on Windows NT/2000.

...Karl

>From: "Richard Stanton" <stanton@Haas.Berkeley.EDU>
>To: "Cygwin" <cygwin@sources.redhat.com>
>Subject: Problem running sshd as service under firedaemon
>Date: Thu, 10 May 2001 12:22:57 -0700
>
>I recently installed sshd directly as a service on my NT machine using
>Firedaemon (I had previously been running sshd under inetd). It runs fine,
>except for one thing. Running under inetd, I used to see various entries in
>the NT event log telling me who was tryng to log on etc. Running under
>Firedaemon, the only events I now see logged in the event log tell me
>"Firedaemon service started" or something similar. No more messages telling
>me who just logged on.
>
>What's worse, and very odd, is that even if I stop the firedaemon service
>and start inetd again, so sshd is running under inetd (and it really is - I
>checked) the event log STILL shows these rather uninformative messages.
>
>Worst of all: I just uninstalled the sshd service completely and ran sshd
>under inetd. Now I get messages in the event log, but when I click on them
>an error box pops up telling me "Event Viewer: The system cannot find the
>file specified". Somehow, using firedaemon has permanently changed the way
>sshd event logging happens. How can I get it to go back to its original
>status?
>
>Richard Stanton
>
>
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