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Re: openssh 3.4p1-4. Error starting sshd service


Max Bowsher <maxb <at> ukf.net> writes:

> 
> Pablo Milano wrote:
> > I upgraded to openssh 3.4p1-4, and after installing it, I get the
> > following error when trying to start the openssh service:
> > 
> > ***********************************************************
> > The CYGWIN sshd service is starting.
> > The CYGWIN sshd service could not be started.
> > 
> > The service did not report an error.
> > 
> > More help is available by typing NET HELPMSG 3534
> > ***********************************************************
> > > 

> You might find a helpful error message in /var/log/sshd.log
> 
> Max.
> 



I had seen the advice to look at /var/log/sshd.log before, but there was 
nothing in the file, then I noticed that no one had write priveleges to that 
file.  Once I ran 

chmod +w /var/log/sshd.log

the ssh server started properly.  Very odd.




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