Re: [gentoo-server] SSH, updates and serial port switches

[Andrew Gaffney]

John Barton wrote:
>
>>
>>> linked to SSH terminating the connection after running some updates.
>>> So, I wanted to get some advice on how you all handle keeping control
>>> of your remote Gentoo servers, and for instance how to keep SSH
>>> running at all costs.
>>
>>
> There is a program out there that handles this very well, called monit
> (http://www.tildeslash.com/monit/)
> You can run this program out of /etc/inittab so that it is always
> running, and it will make sure that your ssh daemon gets restarted if
> something happens. I run monit on every server I have in production.
> Hope this helps..

I don't think that will work in this case. The master SSH daemon doesn't die. It 
is the new ones that are launched when a connection is made that are looking for 
  old libraries that causes the problem, AFAIK.

-- 
Andrew Gaffney
Gentoo Linux Developer
Installer Project