Re: [gentoo-user] SSH won't restart

["Stephen Wittig" <nofx911@gmail.com>]

Yes. As a personal preference I don't usually chain commands together
when trouble shooting something, but there is technically nothing
wrong with doing so.

-Stephen


On 9/10/07, Grant <emailgrant@gmail.com> wrote:
> > This process is the ssh daemon:
> > root      2988     1  0 Sep04 ?        00:00:00 /usr/sbin/sshd
> >
> > Two things: before killing the process with the KILL signal, I would
> > try killing it with TERM
> > kill -TERM 2988
> >
> > If that doesn't work then kill the process with the KILL signal.
> >
> > I would also use:
> > /etc/init.d/sshd restart
> >
> > This will give the init script a chance to do some cleanup work before
> > restarting
>
> Do this:
>
> kill -TERM 2988 && /etc/init.d/sshd restart
>
> and if that doesn't work, do:
>
> kill -9 2988 && /etc/init.d/sshd restart
>
> ?
>
> - Grant
>
>
> > > >  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.
> > > >
> > > >
> > > >  I had a similar issue after a previous update to ssh when I went to restart
> > > > it to get it to use the new binaries.  One of the nice features of sshd is
> > > > that your current session will say active even if you kill the sshd daemon
> > > > process.  Of course, if you get disconnected then you will not be able to
> > > > log back in, so it's good to do what you need to quickly if you do need to
> > > > kill (or if it's really stuck, kill -9) the process.  When I had this
> > > > problem I issued a `kill -9 PID_NUMBER && /etc/init.d/sshd start` - just be
> > > > sure that you're killing the /usr/sbin/sshd process and not one of your sshd
> > > > login forks at the same time.
> > >
> > > OK, I've got to be really careful here.  I see the following processes
> > > in 'ps -ef':
> > >
> > > root      2988     1  0 Sep04 ?        00:00:00 /usr/sbin/sshd
> > > root      7573  2988  0 07:28 ?        00:00:00 sshd: root@pts/0
> > >
> > > Should I:
> > >
> > > kill -9 2988 && /etc/init.d/sshd start
> > >
> > > Are you sure?  :)
> > >
> > > - Grant
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