In <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Andrew Prewett
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> typed:
> Today Mike Meyer wrote:
> > [Context lost to top posting.]
> >
> > In <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Kenzo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> typed:
> > > Yes, that worked, but now I can't sshd to it anymore.
> > > looking in the auth.log file, it sais " Bind to port 22 on 0.0.0.0 failed
> > > address already in use.
> > > so I edit the file /etc/ssh/sshd_config to ListenAddress 10.25.2.60 ( the
> > > server's address ) then restart.
> > > in auth.log, it says " Server Listening on 10.25.2.60 port 22
> > >
> > > but it still doesn't work. what else do I need to do?
> > Put /etc/ssh/sshd_config back the way it was. Then kill and restart
> > the ssh daemon. Again, rebooting the system to cause any daemons that
> > have files in /var open to close them - thus freeing the space - and
> > reopen with real files is a good idea.
> No, except few cases (new kernel, hw change), you newer must reboot the
> system. It's not a windoze. If a program (process) is killed/terminated, then
> all opened files will be closed (implicitly or explicitly).
True, you don't have to reboot. However, I'd do it because that's
faster than finding every process that has an open file and /var and
killing and restarting those processes. If you really don't want him
to reboot, please tell him how to find and restart all those
processes.
<mike
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