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

[Grant]

> This process is the ssh daemon:
> root      2988     1  0 Sep04 ?        00:00:00 /usr/sbin/sshd
>
> Two things: before killing the process with the KILL signal, I would
> try killing it with TERM
> kill -TERM 2988
>
> If that doesn't work then kill the process with the KILL signal.
>
> I would also use:
> /etc/init.d/sshd restart
>
> This will give the init script a chance to do some cleanup work before
> restarting

Do this:

kill -TERM 2988 && /etc/init.d/sshd restart

and if that doesn't work, do:

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