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From: Grant <emailgrant@gmail.com>
To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] sshd won't restart on remote system
Date: Wed, 12 Nov 2008 11:05:20 -0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <49bf44f10811121105t3d29167au178ff8b61b9ae3c4@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <919d41310811121035s33220838r2638911f4e3c7a9c@mail.gmail.com>

>> After updating to the latest stable x86 openssh and merging config
>>  files on my remote system, I get:
>>
>>  # /etc/init.d/sshd restart
>>  * Stopping sshd ... [ !! ]
>>
>>  There is nothing in /var/log/sshd/current.  Does anyone know what I should do?
>
> You could stop the sshd process manually with kill or similar (I use
> htop). (Careful though, you don't want to kill your current session,
> just the daemon listening for new connections!) Then you can "zap" the
> service and start it as normal.
>
> Or you could reboot the host, and (assuming it's in your default
> run-level) sshd will start on boot.

I could reboot, but how can I be sure sshd will start again?  The fact
that it's not stopping makes me wonder if there is something wrong.
If it doesn't start I'm locked out of the remote system.

- Grant



  reply	other threads:[~2008-11-12 19:05 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2008-11-12 17:37 [gentoo-user] sshd won't restart on remote system Grant
2008-11-12 17:49 ` Mike Williams
2008-11-12 18:35 ` Dan Wallis
2008-11-12 19:05   ` Grant [this message]
2008-11-12 22:57     ` Nicolas Sebrecht
2008-11-12 23:27       ` Grant
2008-11-12 23:36         ` Andrey Falko
2008-11-12 23:38           ` Andrey Falko
2008-11-13  0:29             ` Grant
2008-11-28  1:28               ` Alex Schuster

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