Bug#369964: ssh: fails to run as daemon if /dev/null is a regular file (daemon() failed: Success)
On Fri, Jun 02, 2006 at 12:09:05PM -0300, Salvador E. Tropea wrote:
> Package: ssh
> Version: 1:3.8.1p1-8.sarge.4
> Severity: grave
This is severity inflation; I've downgraded it. (It's only unusable on
very broken systems.)
> The sshd daemon fails to start if /dev/null is a regular file.
> You can start sshd in debug mode (sshd -d) but when you try to start it
> normally it fails to go to background.
> The program logs the following error:
>
> daemon() failed: Success
The poor error reporting is largely the fault of the C library. See the
daemon(3) man page.
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Colin Watson [cjwatson@debian.org]
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