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Date:      Wed, 10 Apr 2002 05:28:58 +1200 (NZST)
From:      Andrew McNaughton <andrew@scoop.co.nz>
To:        "Jacques A. Vidrine" <nectar@FreeBSD.ORG>
Cc:        X Philius <xphilius@yahoo.com>, <freebsd-security@FreeBSD.ORG>
Subject:   Re: Verifying that a security patch has done it's thing...
Message-ID:  <20020410052724.H12945-100000@a2>
In-Reply-To: <20020409172127.GN19961@madman.nectar.cc>

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On Tue, 9 Apr 2002, Jacques A. Vidrine wrote:

> On Tue, Apr 09, 2002 at 10:18:17AM -0700, X Philius wrote:
> [deletia ... thanks for the kind words!]
>
> > I assume I can find the PID by running ps -x as well,
> > correct? It would be the process ID for /usr/sbin/sshd...
>
> Well, there will be more than one instance of sshd: the master, plus
> one for every active SSH connection.  You don't want to shoot the
> wrong process, especially if SSH is your primary or only means of
> accessing the box. :-)

In which case you might be well advised to have a cron job which checks on
it every so often and attempts to restart if it dies.  No help if the
server won't start though


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