From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Jan 7 11:37:34 2003 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6233E37B401 for ; Tue, 7 Jan 2003 11:37:33 -0800 (PST) Received: from mired.org (ip68-97-54-220.ok.ok.cox.net [68.97.54.220]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 5546B43EB2 for ; Tue, 7 Jan 2003 11:37:32 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from mwm-dated-1042400251.064a51@mired.org) Received: (qmail 99380 invoked from network); 7 Jan 2003 19:37:31 -0000 Received: from localhost.mired.org (HELO guru.mired.org) (127.0.0.1) by localhost.mired.org with SMTP; 7 Jan 2003 19:37:31 -0000 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-ID: <15899.11387.156085.303405@guru.mired.org> Date: Tue, 7 Jan 2003 13:37:31 -0600 To: Andrew Prewett Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Deleted VAR In-Reply-To: <20030107200941.F63741@slave.east.ath.cx> References: <15899.5780.980725.387591@guru.mired.org> <15899.8300.60339.429750@guru.mired.org> <20030107200941.F63741@slave.east.ath.cx> X-Mailer: VM 7.07 under 21.1 (patch 14) "Cuyahoga Valley" XEmacs Lucid X-face: "5Mnwy%?j>IIV\)A=):rjWL~NB2aH[}Yq8Z=u~vJ`"(,&SiLvbbz2W`; h9L,Yg`+vb1>RG% *h+%X^n0EZd>TM8_IB;a8F?(Fb"lw'IgCoyM.[Lg#r\ From: Mike Meyer X-Delivery-Agent: TMDA/0.67 (Whirlaway) Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG In <20030107200941.F63741@slave.east.ath.cx>, Andrew Prewett typed: > Today Mike Meyer wrote: > > [Context lost to top posting.] > > > > In , Kenzo typed: > > > Yes, that worked, but now I can't sshd to it anymore. > > > looking in the auth.log file, it sais " Bind to port 22 on 0.0.0.0 failed > > > address already in use. > > > so I edit the file /etc/ssh/sshd_config to ListenAddress 10.25.2.60 ( the > > > server's address ) then restart. > > > in auth.log, it says " Server Listening on 10.25.2.60 port 22 > > > > > > but it still doesn't work. what else do I need to do? > > Put /etc/ssh/sshd_config back the way it was. Then kill and restart > > the ssh daemon. Again, rebooting the system to cause any daemons that > > have files in /var open to close them - thus freeing the space - and > > reopen with real files is a good idea. > No, except few cases (new kernel, hw change), you newer must reboot the > system. It's not a windoze. If a program (process) is killed/terminated, then > all opened files will be closed (implicitly or explicitly). True, you don't have to reboot. However, I'd do it because that's faster than finding every process that has an open file and /var and killing and restarting those processes. If you really don't want him to reboot, please tell him how to find and restart all those processes. http://www.mired.org/consulting.html Independent WWW/Perforce/FreeBSD/Unix consultant, email for more information. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message