Linux Debian support - SSH is no more running

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SSH is no more running

aliasjcdenton

2006-11-24, 1:13 pm

Hi all,

My problem is that SSH is not more running.

Whenever I do '#/etc/init.d/ssh restart', there is no entry appearing
when I do '#ps -aux | grep ssh'.

I did 'apt-get remove --purge openssh-server openssh-client' and
reinstalled them but it doesn't change nothing.

Can someone give me his help ?

Thank you by advance.

aliasjcdenton

Mumia W. (reading news)

2006-11-24, 1:13 pm

On 11/24/2006 11:02 AM, aliasjcdenton wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> My problem is that SSH is not more running.
>
> Whenever I do '#/etc/init.d/ssh restart', there is no entry appearing
> when I do '#ps -aux | grep ssh'.
>
> I did 'apt-get remove --purge openssh-server openssh-client' and
> reinstalled them but it doesn't change nothing.
>
> Can someone give me his help ?
>
> Thank you by advance.
>
> aliasjcdenton

You don't say what O/S and distribution you're using. I'm tempted to
assume Debian Etch. I have Sarge, so I don't have the same environment
as your assumed platform, but I suggest that you look on the Debian
web-site and search for bugs relating to SSH--especially bugs in Etch.

Also check out /var/log/syslog and /var/log/messages to see if sshd
emitted any error messages before it died, and look inside the file
/etc/init.d/ssh to see that everything is okay there.

Additionally, the manual page for sshd (man sshd) might have some clues
for why the daemon won't run.

I hope this helps.

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Jeroen Geilman

2006-11-24, 7:14 pm

aliasjcdenton wrote:

> Hi all,
>
> My problem is that SSH is not more running.
>
> Whenever I do '#/etc/init.d/ssh restart', there is no entry appearing
> when I do '#ps -aux | grep ssh'.

Well, then start investigating whether it will actually run at all.
Run SSHD in debug console mode:

#/sbin/sshd -f /etc/sshd/sshd_config -d

And see what happens.

If that works, then the problem lies in the startup scripts.

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