[PATCH]: Addition to Cygwin README

Corinna Vinschen vinschen at redhat.com
Thu May 3 22:16:08 EST 2001


Hi,

just a short addition to the Cygwin README. It would be nice to
include that into the repository.

Thanks,
Corinna

Index: README
===================================================================
RCS file: /cvs/openssh_cvs/contrib/cygwin/README,v
retrieving revision 1.4
diff -u -p -r1.4 README
--- README      2001/03/14 21:30:18     1.4
+++ README      2001/05/03 12:13:45
@@ -57,6 +57,13 @@ Install sshd as daemon via SRVANY.EXE (r
 (results in very slow deamon startup!) or from the command line (recommended
 on 9X/ME).
   
+If you start sshd as deamon via SRVANY.EXE you will see two
+sshd processes in the process list unless you give the "-D"
+option to sshd. That will avoid that sshd detaches from the
+controlling terminal and it will remain under process control
+of SRVANY.EXE. That allows easy killing of the service by
+using the `net stop <servicename>' command.
+
 If starting via inetd, copy sshd to eg. /usr/sbin/in.sshd and add the
 following line to your inetd.conf file:
 

-- 
Corinna Vinschen
Cygwin Developer
Red Hat, Inc.
mailto:vinschen at redhat.com



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