Re: [gentoo-user] sshd won't restart on remote system

[Mike Williams]

On Wednesday 12 November 2008 17:37:29 Grant wrote:
> After updating to the latest stable x86 openssh and merging config
> files on my remote system, I get:
>
> # /etc/init.d/sshd restart
> * Stopping sshd ... [ !! ]
>
> There is nothing in /var/log/sshd/current.  Does anyone know what I should
> do?

Sometimes ssh won't restart if it's being used, possible after an openssl 
update I'm not sure.
Try this

(sleep 5 ; /etc/init.d/sshd restart) &

then logout, and 5-6 seconds later try to login, if it worked ssh can now be 
restarted while you're logged in as normal.

-- 
Mike Williams