The machine is running woody and is up to date, SSH version 3.0.2p1-6. I have already tried purging the package and downloading it again (will check the MD5 sums afterward to make sure).
Andrew Tait System Administrator Country NetLink Pty, Ltd E-Mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] WWW: http://www.cnl.com.au 30 Bank St Cobram, VIC 3644, Australia Ph: +61 (03) 58 711 000 Fax: +61 (03) 58 711 874 "It's the smell! If there is such a thing." Agent Smith - The Matrix ----- Original Message ----- From: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Andrew Tait" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: <debian-isp@lists.debian.org> Sent: Monday, February 25, 2002 3:36 PM Subject: Re: SSH Daemon failing > On Mon, Feb 25, 2002 at 03:27:07PM +1100, Andrew Tait wrote: > > Hi All, > > > > A few days ago SSH just failed on me, out of the blue. > > > > Everytime I start ssh (/etc/init.d/ssh start), this appears in the auth.log > > file: > > > > Feb 25 13:50:44 porky sshd[453]: fatal: daemon() failed: Success > > > > I can run ssh in debug mode (sshd -d) or by telling it not to detach > > (sshd -D) and it runs fine. It just when it tried to daemonise itself that > > it fails, as you can see by the log files. Other processes such as syslogd > > start/stop fine. > > > > Any suggestions? > > What version of ssh? If you have a machine with the exact same sshd > binary, compare the md5sums. If you were running ssh v1, you may have been > hacked, and a trojaned sshd installed. > > Tim > > -- > > >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>><<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<< > >> Tim Sailer (at home) >< Coastal Internet,Inc. << > >> Network and Systems Operations >< PO Box 671 << > >> http://www.buoy.com >< Ridge, NY 11961 << > >> [EMAIL PROTECTED]/[EMAIL PROTECTED] >< (631)924-3728 (888) > 924-3728 << > >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>><<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<< >
