On Tue, Mar 08, 2005 at 11:19:45PM -0500, Tsu-Fan Cheng wrote: > Hi, > I am trying to enable sshd on my freebsd5.4 prerelease (I didn't > realize this when I cvsup the stable source). Anyway. I read something > in the mailing list which said that I should go to /etc/rc.d, then > execute "./sshd start" from there, this will make ssh-keygen to > generate host key and stuff. I did this and there is nothing, the > "ssh_host_dsa_key" is not generated. I have another box which runs > 5.3, and it generates key when I did the same thing. I wonder where > can it go wrong?
Did you enable ssh in rc.conf? I'm pretty sure the scripts in rc.d won't start unless you enable them there. Alternatively, "./sshd forcestart" should make it start no matter what. "man 8 rc.d" for more info. > One more thing is that I witnessed there is some weird log appears > on that 5.3 box when I boot, it goes like this: > > 1338 %parent R *Handler > 1339 0 R Node > 1340 %desc R *Handler > 1341 %driver R *Handler > 1342 %location R *Handler > 1343 %pnpinfo R *Handler > 1344 %parent R *Handler > 1345 vga R Node > 1346 %parent R *Handler > 1347 0 R Node > 1348 %desc R *Handler > 1349 %driver R *Handler > 1350 %location R *Handler > 1351 %pnpinfo R *Handler > 1352 %parent R *Handler > > I guess I enable something somewhere but just can't remember, any idea? > thansk! > > -- > The Hell's Restroom Production _______________________________________________ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"