Re: ssh port not opening

[John Schmidt <john.andrew.schmidt@gmail.com>]

On Monday 05 November 2007, John O Laoi wrote:
> On 11/5/07, Andrew Sackville-West <andrew@farwestbilliards.com> wrote:
> > ssh-agent is *not* the program that allows ssh connections. That is
> > sshd. It should be started with /etc/ini.d/ssh start as root. Is there
> > no output when you do that? Anything in the logs?
> >
> > > However, I cannot ssh into my host.
> > > The contents of  /etc/default/ssh is
> >
> > that's because sshd is not running and needs to be.
>
> But the file /etc/init.d/sshd  does not exist.
> The only such file in  /etc/init.d  is   ssh.
>
>
> How do I check the logs?
>
> John

Do this:  dpkg --get-selections | grep ssh and send the results.  I am 
wondering if you have the openssh-server installed.  You can get everything 
by just doing aptitude install ssh.

John