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Re: sshd



On Thu, 13 May 1999, Collins M.  Ben  wrote:

> On Thu, May 13, 1999 at 12:01:42PM -0400, Christopher J. Morrone wrote:
> > 
> > I have Debian running on a laptop that I just purchased, and I have ssh
> > installed.  However, since this is a laptop, its not always connected to
> > the network...is there some easy way to keep sshd from pausing the boot
> > sequence for 5 minutes if there is no network?
> 
> If you don't want sshd running at all you can just do:
> 
> update-rc.d -f ssh remove
> 
> This will remove the links in /etc/rc?.d but leaves the /etc/init.d/ssh
> script. You will need to run `/etc/init.d/ssh start` to start sshd
> manually, but you wont need that unless you plan on logging _into_ the
> laptop.

Yes, I do plan on logging into the laptop remotely.  And I don't want to
remove the daemon from the startup...I just don't want it to pause for 5
minutes when there is no network. :)  Why exactly does sshd freeze on
startup, is it trying to do a DNS lookup or something?


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