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cygrunsrv, sshd, services and not starting after boot
- From: "Ron Dozier" <dozier at udel dot edu>
- To: <cygwin at cygwin dot com>
- Date: Sat, 02 Sep 2006 16:17:40 -0400
- Subject: cygrunsrv, sshd, services and not starting after boot
I noted that a lot of people are having trouble getting the sshd service to
start automatically. I think I discovered a problem.
Run services.msc and selecting sshd) there is a "Path to executable" field
that currently says :"C:\cygwin\bin\cygrunsrv.exe"
Based on looking at some other entries like "automatic updates which use
C:\WINDOWS\system32\svchost.exe -k netsvcs", I believe it should say:
C:\cygwin\bin\cygrunsrv.exe -S sshd
otherwise the application cygrunsrv has no idea what service to start.
Microsoft says it's up to the developer to provide a mechanism to do so.
"net start" sshd works. Currently someone has to log in after a boot and
type the command. The suggestion of running a batch file containing "net
start sshd" has been suggested to run automatically after a user logs in but
was not tried.
This would require a user logging in.
Features of cygrunsrv I'd like to see:
A method of changing the Path variable reported by services.msc.
A method of changing the options presented to sshd reported by services.msc.
Am I barking up the wrong tree?
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