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Re: Win98se and using SSHD as a TRUE service


The elegant reusable solution would require the creation of a cygrunsrv-like
program for 9x/Me. Whilst none of the programming would be particularly
challenging, the whole program would basically have to be rewritten, because
the 9x/Me service control manager is 100% different from the NT/2k SCM. You
are increasingly unlikely to find anyone who can be bothered to write the
program, now that the 9x/Me product line is obsolete.

A quick and dirty fix would be to add a call to RegisterServiceProcess[See
Win32 API docs] in the initialization code of ssh, and recompile. That would
give you a version of ssh which would fix your problem (but wouldn't run on
NT/2k).

Max Bowsher.

----- Original Message -----
From: "Gerald Villemure" <GVillemure@ik.ca>
To: <cygwin@cygwin.com>
Sent: Friday, November 09, 2001 5:06 AM
Subject: Win98se and using SSHD as a TRUE service


> I would like to say that if I knew how to code I would be the first to
> volunteer to develope a fix.  At this point I can mostly offer my time as
a
> tester more then anything else.
>
> The issue is this:
>
> I put the following entry into the registry:
> [HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\RunServices]
> "C:\\CYGWIN\\BIN\\BASH.EXE --login -c /usr/sbin/sshd"
>
> This starts SSHD as a service when the system boots but the problem is
that
> SSHD dosen't register itself as a true service. I can say this because I
use
> a tool to see the processes currently running on the box called WinTOP
which
> you can find here:
>
>
http://www.microsoft.com/windows95/downloads/contents/wutoys/w95kerneltoy/de
> fault.asp
>
> According to WinTOP my "VNC" process is a "system process" but my "SSHD"
is
> a normal user level process.
>
> I would not care either way but for the fact that if I login via SSHD then
> the next time the user logs out SSHD will DIE!
>
> Everythign else with regards to SSHD work VERY well.
>
> Last tested with:
> Win98se
> Cygwin 1.3.4-4
> OpenSSH 3.0p1-1
>
> Thanks for any help,
>
> Gerald
> --------------------------------------------------------------------
> I n t e r K n o w l e d g e
> Gerald Villemure
> I am a DO-er, not a TRY-er.                  email: GVillemure@ik.ca
>
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