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Re: Fix for sshd service start failure problem
On Sat, 24 Jan 2004, Christopher Faylor wrote:
> On Sat, Jan 24, 2004 at 10:08:49AM -0500, Igor Pechtchanski wrote:
> >On Fri, 23 Jan 2004, Joseph E. Vornehm, Jr. wrote:
> >>For what it's worth, I think I've found a fix to a problem posted in
> >>October of 2002 in this thread:
> >>
> >>http://www.cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/2002-10/msg00443.html
> >>
> >>Here's my version of the problem: After running ssh-host-config (and
> >>noticing two errors from chown about the system account), the sshd
> >>Windows service won't start, even though manually executing
> >>/usr/sbin/sshd works fine. I'm running the current openssh package,
> >>3.7.1p2-2, on WinXP. All my other Cygwin packages are current (as of
> >>today).
> >
> >FYI, your Cygwin packages are only as current as the mirror you use.
>
> Just a datapoint: The mirror list is updated twice a day. It checks
> that the most current package on sources.redhat.com is available on the
> mirror. If the mirror is not current, it is marked. If, on the next
> scan, it is still not current, it is dropped from the list until it
> becomes current. So, mirrors should not be out-of-date for more than 48
> hours.
>
> cgf
Nice. This won't work for custom mirrors or hand-entered URLs, however
(and yes, they're unsupported).
Oh, and would it be possible to eventually store the date of the last
mirror update (at a guess, the setup.bz2 timestamp?) in the mirrors.txt
file? I'm thinking of having setup display the last-update date and the
ping information for each mirror, and letting the users sort the mirror
list and make their mirror selection based on that...
Igor
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