[4278] in testers
Re: sshd weirdness
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Jonathon Weiss)
Fri Jul 2 01:31:36 1999
Message-Id: <199907020531.BAA04089@speaker-for-the-dead.mit.edu>
From: Jonathon Weiss <jweiss@MIT.EDU>
To: Jonathon Weiss <jweiss@MIT.EDU>
Cc: testers@MIT.EDU
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Tue, 01 Jun 1999 20:06:34 EDT."
<199906020006.UAA11146@speaker-for-the-dead.mit.edu>
Date: Fri, 02 Jul 1999 01:31:10 EDT
>
> on my 8.3.4 indy, sshd has problems starting at boot time.
>
> The rc script says it starts it, and it does infact syslog:
>
> Jun 1 20:00:03 [DELIVERATOR.MIT.EDU] sshd[550]: log: Server listening on port 22.
> Jun 1 20:00:03 [DELIVERATOR.MIT.EDU] sshd[550]: log: Generating 1152 bit RSA key.
>
> but it never logs that it finished gen-ing the key, nor is it running
> when I log in with eklogin.
After a bunch of attempts, I finally figured out what was causing
this. I have an rc script that runs shortly after the athena one.
One of the things it did was run access_on (it predated being able to
DWIW with ACCESSON in rc.conf.) It seems that the signal access_on
was sending to sshd was killing it. My guess is that it didn't have
its signal handlers set up before it genreated its keys. I'm not sure
if we care, enough to fix it, but I figured people would want to know
that the issue was resolved.
Jonathon
