On Fri, May 14, 1999 at 08:28:54AM +0200, scratch wrote: > On Thu, 13 May 1999, Christopher J. Morrone wrote: > > > Yes, I do plan on logging into the laptop remotely. And I don't want to > > remove the daemon from the startup...I just don't want it to pause for 5 > > minutes when there is no network. :) Why exactly does sshd freeze on > > startup, is it trying to do a DNS lookup or something? > > If I'm right, it's probably generating an RSA key. This is not only done > on startup though. OTOH, one would think this would be a background > process, and you shouldn't wait for it at bootup. > > I never noticed such a freeze personally.
Generating the RSA is a background process. I just thought about something though, what address do you have it binding to in /etc/ssh/sshd_config? It should be 0.0.0.0. -- ----- -- - -------- --------- ---- ------- ----- - - --- -------- Ben Collins <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Debian GNU/Linux OpenLDAP Dev - [EMAIL PROTECTED] The Choice of the GNU Generation ------ -- ----- - - ------- ------- -- ---- - -------- - --- ---- - --