From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from lists.gentoo.org ([140.105.134.102] helo=robin.gentoo.org) by finch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1IVBmu-0007BK-HI for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Tue, 11 Sep 2007 19:52:46 +0000 Received: from robin.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.14.0/8.14.0) with SMTP id l8BJfs6E018461; Tue, 11 Sep 2007 19:41:54 GMT Received: from nz-out-0506.google.com (nz-out-0506.google.com [64.233.162.228]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.14.0/8.14.0) with ESMTP id l8BJUvVG000527 for ; Tue, 11 Sep 2007 19:30:57 GMT Received: by nz-out-0506.google.com with SMTP id s18so783872nze for ; Tue, 11 Sep 2007 12:30:56 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=beta; h=domainkey-signature:received:received:message-id:date:from:to:subject:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition:references; bh=3p4Es05dw3q1ohj5SexPbMKRTeVflXSuxGIy4u30pdo=; b=Xbp6rZDW72i4jj0iuV6m296qQAc27QcWXaGHNdl2Ze/uzDySyHvfEOzS7jgg5BZAcHcG1ZXbfN//w+DE7dBqhWgPmC7M4pP1/nfng5fVVGKyB53ac09hVRSx15Ng9FGc2u8ZkLmO9ykRU/A4xLnhMuit7fyLrKiMlnZp+sYVLT0= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=beta; h=received:message-id:date:from:to:subject:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition:references; b=eEUg+KVucis6CXDO4GPoniNG2Er5XBi/LKcGzOR9V2k1UUwicaPm7Ga7uG84yFF6Afi5ABEjxo004aJNlYEgeF6MMYT8G3M9xMwuRkva78a2InyE4L9hjkp0C5Bc9OPEcxjk0+J2dUfubl3716xUuyCByPp/vEED18SMs559wuE= Received: by 10.142.101.17 with SMTP id y17mr326031wfb.1189539056074; Tue, 11 Sep 2007 12:30:56 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.143.43.6 with HTTP; Tue, 11 Sep 2007 12:30:56 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <49bf44f10709111230w2ab0ac4j2235e6dc8646a3b0@mail.gmail.com> Date: Tue, 11 Sep 2007 12:30:56 -0700 From: Grant To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] SSH won't restart In-Reply-To: <20070911110848.22236035@pascal.spore.ath.cx> Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline References: <49bf44f10709080840k4f64df08r1f3ba9a4e3b4f031@mail.gmail.com> <49bf44f10709100958jd3516d7tbdf5bf1e804f412f@mail.gmail.com> <49bf44f10709101054r13c8b7c4w90f0051ade528dcb@mail.gmail.com> <49bf44f10709101212r26f869d9n2b6c7e6fd1f8395f@mail.gmail.com> <49bf44f10709101223j51dc1138j27f4bd17ad48275f@mail.gmail.com> <20070910143815.294027ed@pascal.spore.ath.cx> <49bf44f10709101314q3f79e8bahd9111f768e5154b8@mail.gmail.com> <20070911110848.22236035@pascal.spore.ath.cx> X-Archives-Salt: 6867c7eb-9355-4dd5-b6c3-d35a37feb131 X-Archives-Hash: 1680ed91d4095a411b86a8bc8ee42ff2 > > Thank you but doesn't it look like there must be a problem that is > > preventing my sshd from starting? Won't '/usr/bin/sshd -p 3' just > > fail, or is that more likely to work than '/etc/init.d/sshd start'? > It seems to me that the problem is probably the initscript is confused, > and not that the config files are bad and the daemon can't start. > > > Also, is '/usr/bin/sshd' sufficient? Why not port 22? > It is. No reason at all. But if you started it before the original > ssh server had been stopped, you'd have to start it on a different port > so that it didn't conflict with the original. Guys, I'm in! I had my host execute: sshd and now I'm logged in, the sshd initscript was already running, and it restarts perfectly. All is well! Thank you for your help! How does my host get root access like that? - Grant -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list