Fork/resource unavailable - SSH/Citrix

Dear all, About 3.5 years ago, I was looking into why a lot of Citrix Presentation Servers were seeing their SSH services fall over. I did actually discover the issue in the end, but neglected to post back here. I found that the issue was the Citrix API hooking, which messes with the fork() call

Re: Log to Windows Eevent Log

2008/12/4 Michael Wiedmann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > My Cygwin application already logs to a remote syslogd but I also want to log > (optionally) to the Windows Event Log. > > How do I accomplish this? > Can you use the native eventcreate.exe ? -- AdamT "At times one remains faithful to a cause o

Re: How to access windows files?

2008/8/11 circ ular <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > How do I access windows files from cygwin? > > I found it before it was something like cd /cygwin/c/ and then I could > move around in my windows files. > So close! - it's /cygdrive/c/ (assuming it's the C drive you want to access). -- AdamT "At times

Re: Error starting sshd: "Win32 error 1069"

2008/6/22 Gordon Messmer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > I'm having trouble starting sshd on a host running Windows Server 2003, SP1. > It was working several days ago, and then stopped for no reason that I can > determine. > > I tried starting the service by hand, and got: > > $ cygrunsrv.exe -S sshd > cy

Re: Fork: Resource temporarily unavailable

2008/6/16 Larry Hall (Cygwin) <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > A common reason for this kind of message is also > . Check it out if you haven't > already. > > Thanks Larry- I've taken a look at the list, and the only match with our environment is McAfee - but that doesn

Fork: Resource temporarily unavailable

Dear all, We have several sshd installations based on Cygwin, running on Server 2003 SP1 (and also SP2). Over the last 12 months or so, there seems to have been a lot of problems with sshd - the eventlogs cite a fork: resource temporarily unavailable - error. I've checked the obvious (ie port 22

Re: how can I stop Windows setting HOME?

2008/6/7 anadem <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > >> > > Ah, yes, excellent! That's exactly it: > [HKLM\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Run] > "NuTCSetupEnviron"="C:\\PROGRA~1\\MKSTOO~1\\bin\\ncoeenv.exe" > Quick question - what is this MKS thinger, is it the thing that used to be nutcracker? --

Re: how can I stop Windows setting HOME?

2008/6/6 Adam Thompson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > 2008/6/6 anadem <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: >> >> Is there any way to permanently unset the HOME env-var in Windows? I could >> run a batch file at startup but afaik that would not be a systemwide removal >> of HOME.

Re: how can I stop Windows setting HOME?

2008/6/6 anadem <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > Each time I boot my pc Windows sets the HOME environment variable to my > "Documents and Settings" directory, which screws up cygwin. Before I can use > cygwin I have to do the My Computer/Properties/Advanced ... etc stuff and > delete HOME from my User vari

Re: FAQ suggestion

On 18/03/2008, Christopher Faylor <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > So, we DON'T WANT people doing this. What we actually want a 3PP to do > is check if there is a version of cygwin installed and use the installed > version if it is a newer or conditionally upgrade if it is not. > The problem wi

Re: Long filename support, soon?

On 06/03/2008, Larry Hall (Cygwin) <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > It is one of the many enhancements in the forthcoming 1.7 series. And > it seems it is also an excruciatingly large task. There is no timetable > for 1.7 as a result. But many hands make light work. If you and others > you kno

Re: Stop Brute Force Attack on SSH

On 18/02/2008, Kyle Dawson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > How can I stop attacks on my ssh demon? I see thousands of attempts every > day. I have, I believe good password policy but since I have clients, not > 100% sure. Is there some config that I can set? One ip address comes in > and tries

Re: "net use" and sshd passwd vs. public-key

On 16/01/2008, Grant Edwards <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I'm running Cygwin sshd on a WinXP-Pro machine. When I ssh-in > using a password, I can map drives with "net use". When I set > up an authorized_keys file so I don't have to enter a password, > "net use" stops working: I get a system error