subsys locked
 

Hi,

I have a problem with sshd. When I try to connect with ssh client I get

ssh: connect to host somedomain.com port 22: Connection refused

when I do

#/etc/init.d/sshd status
sshd dead but subsys locked

#/etc/init.d/sshd stop
Stopping sshd: [FAILED]

And

#ps au -C sshd

returns no sshd processes running.

Initial investigation leads me to

#rm /var/lock/subsys/sshd

which is fine, there is a file of that name and it has been deleted. Starting the daemon again leads to the same problem.

#ls /var/run/

has no sshd.pid to delete.

What is going on here?! Can anyone help?