> I just upgraded ssh and when I try to restart I get: > > * Stopping sshd ... [ !! ] > > I don't see anything about it in '/var/log/sshd/current'. How can I > figure out what is wrong? I'm a little nervous because I don't want > to shut myself out of this remote server. > > > I had a similar issue after a previous update to ssh when I went to restart > it to get it to use the new binaries. One of the nice features of sshd is > that your current session will say active even if you kill the sshd daemon > process. Of course, if you get disconnected then you will not be able to > log back in, so it's good to do what you need to quickly if you do need to > kill (or if it's really stuck, kill -9) the process. When I had this > problem I issued a `kill -9 PID_NUMBER && /etc/init.d/sshd start` - just be > sure that you're killing the /usr/sbin/sshd process and not one of your sshd > login forks at the same time.
OK, I've got to be really careful here. I see the following processes in 'ps -ef': root 2988 1 0 Sep04 ? 00:00:00 /usr/sbin/sshd root 7573 2988 0 07:28 ? 00:00:00 sshd: [EMAIL PROTECTED]/0 Should I: kill -9 2988 && /etc/init.d/sshd start Are you sure? :) - Grant -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
