Re: [gentoo-user] SSH won't restart

[Grant]

>  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: root@pts/0

Should I:

kill -9 2988 && /etc/init.d/sshd start

Are you sure?  :)

- Grant
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