Skip site navigation (1)Skip section navigation (2)
Date:      Wed, 20 May 2009 16:46:11 +0200
From:      Dimitry Andric <dimitry@andric.com>
To:        Glen Barber <glen.j.barber@gmail.com>
Cc:        hackers@freebsd.org, bug-followup@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: bin/134694: gives false-positive when unable to obtain socket [WAS: sshd(8) - alert user when fails to execute from rc.d]
Message-ID:  <4A1417B3.3030303@andric.com>
In-Reply-To: <4ad871310905200740n744f9b83j96db2a3c1a6bec43@mail.gmail.com>
References:  <4ad871310905181949s2874795eoa5ddf425746310bf@mail.gmail.com>	<Ef8BU7l8PyKhYzlJNCX2WAa41WY@cgr/Aoyjz11KtFDB23HMnFSn04s>	<4A13E180.1040606@andric.com> <4A13E6F7.7070309@glocalnet.net>	<4A13E906.7020907@andric.com> <4ad871310905200740n744f9b83j96db2a3c1a6bec43@mail.gmail.com>

next in thread | previous in thread | raw e-mail | index | archive | help
On 2009-05-20 16:40, Glen Barber wrote:
> sshd was listening on :25, both IPv4 and IPv6
> sendmail was listening on :25 (because I had forgotten to disable it)
> 
> The system boots, and sendmail starts before sshd.  When sshd starts
> (or tries to) there is no console output that it had failed.  The only
> way you realize it is not running, is when you cannot remotely log in.

Yes, this is unfortunate, but normal, as I explained in an earlier post.

The sshd process does not return any error (and thus the /etc/rc.d
script doesn't either), because it has no way to know that its forked
copy died.

The solution to this PR is "don't run stuff on conflicting ports". :)



Want to link to this message? Use this URL: <https://mail-archive.FreeBSD.org/cgi/mid.cgi?4A1417B3.3030303>