From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org ([69.77.167.62] helo=lists.gentoo.org) by finch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1L0L1n-0003vF-P3 for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Wed, 12 Nov 2008 19:05:24 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 01CA9E04C5; Wed, 12 Nov 2008 19:05:23 +0000 (UTC) Received: from fg-out-1718.google.com (fg-out-1718.google.com [72.14.220.154]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B56ACE04C5 for ; Wed, 12 Nov 2008 19:05:22 +0000 (UTC) Received: by fg-out-1718.google.com with SMTP id d23so603416fga.14 for ; Wed, 12 Nov 2008 11:05:20 -0800 (PST) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; 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=pE4c+txrQeJrHTV9WcSh1/NqyQrItdxA78BM9WIuMHo=; b=TLpFvNJupIk2ZOc50bprEikh6uYcQ41p9GXBrZB2dATLs08bpdPm+4ZnW5L7+ihUdw IO2c11A8UddEvE/oCss59YOt9ONuftKWRh8NcY251O1c2hm0YzF8loEzbiq/WaRi34Me P0YnzrV7CdRmIatuZ+JiKLHxkQc5jFvJuVs00= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=message-id:date:from:to:subject:in-reply-to:mime-version :content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition :references; b=FmZAuFaw7urin6ON3v9rcsT1BzpcaGY3LWVERJp30uzvwnM69f3UR1bkD+Ed8u0mMU aQKgu6Fsnnb+brcw4ZeLQd1+R+QIbHmYdarhqVl3lWCGyTfVrzzleUBam8xqCjPiQxgM xoytrEOC/08U98zETODY7hD6ivxuFmuQ4VrrM= Received: by 10.181.144.11 with SMTP id w11mr2945213bkn.81.1226516720540; Wed, 12 Nov 2008 11:05:20 -0800 (PST) Received: by 10.180.205.11 with HTTP; Wed, 12 Nov 2008 11:05:20 -0800 (PST) Message-ID: <49bf44f10811121105t3d29167au178ff8b61b9ae3c4@mail.gmail.com> Date: Wed, 12 Nov 2008 11:05:20 -0800 From: Grant To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] sshd won't restart on remote system In-Reply-To: <919d41310811121035s33220838r2638911f4e3c7a9c@mail.gmail.com> Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@lists.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: <49bf44f10811120937g2af6ef6dj685da2c31d749f0a@mail.gmail.com> <919d41310811121035s33220838r2638911f4e3c7a9c@mail.gmail.com> X-Archives-Salt: 6f723ae8-516b-4db6-951d-b63b1f3d0822 X-Archives-Hash: 7dd1b7697a61a7c0610fd2241cc8ba25 >> 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