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. -- Take care. Thanks, Brian Inglis, Calgary, Alberta, Canada This email may be disturbing to some readers as it contains too much technical detail. Reader discretion is advised. -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple