On Sun, Jul 06, 2003 at 05:41:23PM +0100, Colin Watson wrote: > My guess here is that /dev/null is broken, which causes the daemon() > library call to fail, which causes sshd to fail to start, but -d causes > sshd not to daemonize. 'ls -l /dev/null' should look like this: > > crw-rw-rw- 1 root root 1, 3 Jan 4 2003 /dev/null Bingo! I had: # ls -l /dev/null -rw-rw-rw- 1 root root 0 Jul 6 14:10 /dev/null All fixed now. Thanks! -- Bob Bernstein