Re: sshd

[scratch <scratch@ace.ulyssis.student.kuleuven.ac.be>]

On Thu, 13 May 1999, Christopher J. Morrone wrote:

> 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?

If I'm right, it's probably generating an RSA key. This is not only done
on startup though. OTOH, one would think this would be a background
process, and you shouldn't wait for it at bootup. 

I never noticed such a freeze personally.

--nico

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