Re: how can I restore a process?
Re: how can I restore a process?
- Subject: Re: how can I restore a process?
- From: Jerry Talkington <email@hidden>
- Date: Sat, 1 Nov 2003 20:10:23 -0800
- Mail-followup-to: email@hidden
On Sat, Nov 01, 2003 at 07:51:58PM -0800, Robert C Burton wrote:
> I am afraid I did something really bad. I was trying to setup ssh so
> that I could see the screen of a local computer.
> I had used ssh to access the intended server and I executed the
> following command from my client on the server
> kill -HUP `cat /var/run/sshd.pid` This was supposed to make sshd reread
> the configuration file. However now when I try to ssh to the server the
> connection is refused.
> So I looked at the "Sharing preferences" on the server and discovered
> that Remote Login had been turned off (Unchecked) so I checked the box
> but all that happens is it says "Remote login is starting up", but it
> never completes.
> I have restarted the computer with no help.
> From reading the man pages about "kill" I gather that I killed the
> daemon sshd but it did not restart.
> Does anyone know how I can restore this process so that Remote Login
> can be started??
There's probably a line with incorrect syntax in the configuration file.
Try running sshd from the command line with the -d option, and it should
tell you where it's crapping out.
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