Re: OpenSSH in Woody

[George Georgalis <georgw@galis.org>]

Most of my debian installs took the recent ssh updates without a hiccup,
but two of them deposited the file /etc/ssh/sshd_not_to_be_run before
restarting and left no daemon listening.

I found this bit of code in /var/lib/dpkg/info/ssh.postinst

setup_startup() {
    start=yes
    [ -e /usr/share/debconf/confmodule ] && {
        db_get ssh/run_sshd
        start="$RET"
    }   
    
    if [ "$start" != "true" ] ; then
        /etc/init.d/ssh stop 2>&1 >/dev/null
        touch /etc/ssh/sshd_not_to_be_run
    else
        rm -f /etc/ssh/sshd_not_to_be_run 2>/dev/null
    fi  
}   


but I don't see the intent of the logic, or why one box would touch the
file but the other wouldn't? Ahaaaa, must have been in the initial debconf
for ssh. but when I do "dpkg --configure ssh" I get:

dpkg: error processing ssh (--configure):
 package ssh is already installed and configured
Errors were encountered while processing:
 ssh

Maybe "--force-things" would get around that, but I don't want to
regenerate my host keys.

How can I change this setting or control whether future updates create
the file?

// George


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