<to...@tuxteam.de> writes: > On Sun, Jan 10, 2016 at 04:27:13PM +0000, Sharon Kimble wrote: > > [...] > >> But I can't ssh into it using 'ssh foo@fooserver'. Every time that I try >> it appears not to connect, just leaving a blank access line and my ram >> is gradually being eaten away which makes this machine slow down! Not >> good really. I can access with 'ssh -v foo@fooserver' which shows the >> remote ssh log, but aren't able to do anything else with it. And I can >> ping it, but haven't been able to do much else. > > Let's recap: you can "ping fooserver" and it answers, but "ssh foo@fooserver" > is dead --> have you made sure that fooserver has an ssh daemon installed > and running? (in Debian that would be the package openssh-server). > > I don't understand a couple of things: > >> [...] my ram >> is gradually being eaten away which makes this machine slow down! > > which one: the fooserver or the client you are trying to access it > from? Most probably not related to your ssh problem, so it makes > sense to tackle that separately anyway.
On *this* machine only. > >> [...] I can access with 'ssh -v foo@fooserver' which shows the >> remote ssh log, but aren't able to do anything else with it. And I can > > You can access it with "ssh -v ..." and not with "ssh ..."? That dosn't > make sense for me. Is that possible that you are only seeing the attempt > on your side? What's the output of this "ssh -v ..."? --8<---------------cut here---------------start------------->8--- ssh -v boztu@norwich OpenSSH_6.7p1 Debian-5, OpenSSL 1.0.1k 8 Jan 2015 debug1: Reading configuration data /home/boudiccas/.ssh/config debug1: /home/boudiccas/.ssh/config line 1: Applying options for norwich debug1: Reading configuration data /etc/ssh/ssh_config debug1: /etc/ssh/ssh_config line 19: Applying options for * debug1: Executing proxy command: exec ssh userext@norwich nc norwich 22 debug1: identity file /home/boudiccas/.ssh/id_rsa type 1 debug1: key_load_public: No such file or directory debug1: identity file /home/boudiccas/.ssh/id_rsa-cert type -1 debug1: key_load_public: No such file or directory debug1: identity file /home/boudiccas/.ssh/id_dsa type -1 debug1: key_load_public: No such file or directory debug1: identity file /home/boudiccas/.ssh/id_dsa-cert type -1 debug1: key_load_public: No such file or directory debug1: identity file /home/boudiccas/.ssh/id_ecdsa type -1 debug1: key_load_public: No such file or directory debug1: identity file /home/boudiccas/.ssh/id_ecdsa-cert type -1 debug1: key_load_public: No such file or directory debug1: identity file /home/boudiccas/.ssh/id_ed25519 type -1 debug1: key_load_public: No such file or directory debug1: identity file /home/boudiccas/.ssh/id_ed25519-cert type -1 debug1: Enabling compatibility mode for protocol 2.0 debug1: Local version string SSH-2.0-OpenSSH_6.7p1 Debian-5 debug1: permanently_drop_suid: 1000 ^C --8<---------------cut here---------------end--------------->8--- > > Regards > -- t Thanks Tomas. Sharon. -- A taste of linux = http://www.sharons.org.uk TGmeds = http://www.tgmeds.org.uk Debian 8.2, fluxbox 1.3.7, emacs 24.5.1
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