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* Re: [gentoo-user] SSH won't restart
  @ 2007-09-16 15:33 99% ` Mike Williams
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From: Mike Williams @ 2007-09-16 15:33 UTC (permalink / raw
  To: gentoo-user

On Saturday 08 September 2007 16:40:34 Grant wrote:
> I just upgraded ssh and when I try to restart I get:
>
> * Stopping sshd ... [ !! ]
>
> I don't see anything about it in '/var/log/sshd/current'.  How can I
> figure out what is wrong?  I'm a little nervous because I don't want
> to shut myself out of this remote server.

This thread went on for a long time, which I mostly ignored TBH.
However, I think I just found a solution.
openssh, in some circumstances (I believe to be openssl changing ABI), will 
not restart as you found. It will only not restart when it's being actively 
used, so you can't do so will logged in.
To restart it when your logged out on a remote server is simply a matter of 
doing this:

# (sleep 15 && /etc/init.d/sshd restart) &

Then getting all ssh sessions logged out within 15 seconds.
I've just done this on a remote system and can now happily log back in, and 
restart ssh without issue.

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Mike Williams
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