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

[Stephen Wittig]

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

-Best of Luck, Stephen

On 9/10/07, Grant <emailgrant@×××××.com> wrote:
> >  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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