ssh Start Up Problem

millerm · 08-19-2009, 12:18 PM

I am running Slackware 10.1.0 and am having problems getting ssh to start. It was running just fine until about a week ago.

I have tried starting via the following:

/etc/rc.d/rc.sshd start

/usr/sbin/sshd

I receive no message and nothing is written to the syslog file but the service does not start, confirmed via netstat command.

Is there anything else I can try or what options do I have? I am new to Slackware and not sure where to go from here.

wolfperkins · 08-19-2009, 12:31 PM

Is there anything in /var/log/secure

millerm · 08-19-2009, 12:47 PM

There is plenty in the secure file. Most of it dealing with our mail server (popa3d) and an occasional in.comstat. Not much else that I could readily see.

millerm · 08-19-2009, 04:17 PM

A little more information....

I can get it to run in debug mode:

/usr/sbin/sshd -d

And I can connect, etc. It just won't start in regular mode.

rg3 · 08-19-2009, 04:35 PM

Try using /usr/sbin/sshd -D so it does not go to the background. Maybe it will print an error message then. Also, strace -ff -o sshd_trace.txt /usr/sbin/sshd may help you debug what the process is doing and why it doesn't seem to start. See the sshd_trace.txt.* after you run that.