On Wed, Nov 12, 2008 at 3:36 PM, Andrey Falko <ma3oxuct@gmail.com> wrote:


On Wed, Nov 12, 2008 at 3:27 PM, Grant <emailgrant@gmail.com> wrote:
>> If it doesn't start I'm locked out of the remote system.
>
> You may be interested in :
> /etc/init.d/sshd reload

I get:

# /etc/init.d/sshd reload
 * Reloading sshd ...
No /usr/sbin/sshd found running; none killed. [ ok ]

That is scary. Can you do equery f openssh, also do a simple ls /usr/sbin/sshd

When is the last time you did an etc-update?

I just checked on my system. sshd is in /usr/bin/sshd. Not sbin. You have an outdated /etc/init.d/sshd file. You might need to etc-update, or reinstall sshd and run etc-update afterwards