Re: SSH Daemon failing

[tps@unslept.com]

On Mon, Feb 25, 2002 at 03:27:07PM +1100, Andrew Tait wrote:
> Hi All,
> 
> A few days ago SSH just failed on me, out of the blue.
> 
> Everytime I start ssh (/etc/init.d/ssh start), this appears in the auth.log
> file:
> 
> Feb 25 13:50:44 porky sshd[453]: fatal: daemon() failed: Success
> 
> I can run ssh in debug mode (sshd -d) or by telling it not to detach
> (sshd -D) and it runs fine. It just when it tried to daemonise itself that
> it fails, as you can see by the log files. Other processes such as syslogd
> start/stop fine.
> 
> Any suggestions?

What version of ssh? If you have a machine with the exact same sshd
binary, compare the md5sums. If you were running ssh v1, you may have been
hacked, and a trojaned sshd installed.

Tim

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