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Re: cygrunsrv does not start cygsshd at boot
On 2020-01-22 15:08, Brian Inglis wrote:
> On 2020-01-22 11:18, ASSI wrote:
>> Andrew J. Schorr writes:
[add cygrunsrv output for completeness]
>>>> Try to set the service to "delayed start" instead and see if that helps.
>>>
>>> Thanks for the suggestion; that seems to fix the issue. Is this a known
>>> problem due to some updates to Windows 10 and/or Cygwin? I have not had
>>> this problem in the past.
>>
>> Win10 is better at starting fast (including parallelization of startup
>> across the available cores) and just the fact that TCP/IP is up seems
>> not enough for sshd to function correctly.
>
> I've used dnscache for network service dependencies (and cygserver and syslog-ng
> for other Cygwin services) with delayed start and preshutdown (cygrunsrv -O,
> --preshutdown).
> Where previous usage was cygrunsrv -t, --type manual is now called demand
> service startup type.
>
> You can set service startup type using:
>
> $ sc config cygsshd start= boot|system|auto|demand|disabled|delayed-auto
> # option flag requires = and the value must be a separate argument
>
> and check them using:
>
> $ sc query cygsshd
>
> SERVICE_NAME: cygsshd
> TYPE : 10 WIN32_OWN_PROCESS
> STATE : 4 RUNNING
> (STOPPABLE, NOT_PAUSABLE, ACCEPTS_PRESHUTDOWN)
> WIN32_EXIT_CODE : 0 (0x0)
> SERVICE_EXIT_CODE : 0 (0x0)
> CHECKPOINT : 0x0
> WAIT_HINT : 0x0
> $ sc qc cygsshd
> [SC] QueryServiceConfig SUCCESS
>
> SERVICE_NAME: cygsshd
> TYPE : 10 WIN32_OWN_PROCESS
> START_TYPE : 3 DEMAND_START
> ERROR_CONTROL : 1 NORMAL
> BINARY_PATH_NAME : C:\...\bin\cygrunsrv.exe
> LOAD_ORDER_GROUP :
> TAG : 0
> DISPLAY_NAME : CYGWIN sshd
> DEPENDENCIES : dnscache
> : cygserver
> : syslog-ng
> SERVICE_START_NAME : LocalSystem
$ cygrunsrv -VQ cygsshd
Service : cygsshd
Display name : CYGWIN sshd
Current State : Running
Controls Accepted : Stop, Preshutdown
Command : /usr/sbin/sshd -D
stdin path : /dev/null
stdout path : /var/log/cygsshd.log
stderr path : /var/log/cygsshd.log
Process Type : Own Process
Startup : Manual
Dependencies : dnscache, cygserver, syslog-ng
Account : LocalSystem
> $ regtool -pv list
> /proc/registry/HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE/SYSTEM/CurrentControlSet/Services/cygsshd/
> ...
> Start (REG_DWORD) = 0x00000002 (2) # [auto]
> DelayedAutostart (REG_DWORD) = 0x00000001 (1) # [delayed]
> ...
> $ regtool -pv list
> /proc/registry/HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE/SYSTEM/CurrentControlSet/Services/cygsshd/Parameters/
> ...
> Preshutdown (REG_DWORD) = 0x00000001 (1) # [preshutdown]
> ...
>
> As the reg entries show, you can also do this by adding or setting registry
> entries using Cygwin regtool, Windows reg, or regedit commands.
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Take care. Thanks, Brian Inglis, Calgary, Alberta, Canada
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