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Re: restarting sshd clears up problem. Why?



On 08/19/2005 10:03 pm, Ross Boylan wrote:
> After various upgrades an installs, I found I couldn't get onto my
> system via ssh.  There was no record of my attempts on the logs, as far
> as I could tell.
>
> When nothing else worked, I shut down ssh and started it in debug mode.
> At least from localhost, I could then get on.  I restarted it via the
> init script, and it's still working (at least from localhost).
>
> Why did this happen?

Are you sure ssh is starting when you boot the machine?  After a fresh install 
(when I reinstall Linux), I generally have to make startup links for ssh with 
update-rc.d.

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