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Re: Wishlist additions for setup.exe
Since the topic is a patch to setup.exe, let me restate an earlier oversight
with it that I mentioned, and add a new one I've discovered through hours of
trial and error...
The first of these is an issue with changing the install options from
"default" on 'All' to "Install". When you do this, setup.exe poorly decides
that you don't need "base-files" or "aspell-dev", and only those two, which
results in a broken install.
Secondly, and this one took me hours on end, and still not completely
resolved, when you install Cygwin you're given the option to install for
"All Users" or "Just Me". Off hand I don't know what the default is, but
apparently when I installed it "Just Me" was selected. I know this, because
when you do this it hoses up the permissions to /var/log so that sshd can't
write to it's log file at all, and hence will not start.
Being on 'XP Home' I still can't get sshd to run as a service, but at least
crond will and I can use it to make sure that sshd is running. I think I
know a fix for that too, though, just haven't yet had the chance or pressing
desire to test it, especially now that I can run it through crond.
Cheers,
Greg
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