From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Nov 20 17:31: 8 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from pogo.caustic.org (caustic.org [64.163.147.186]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 128CA37B41A for ; Tue, 20 Nov 2001 17:31:05 -0800 (PST) Received: from localhost (jan@localhost) by pogo.caustic.org (8.11.6/8.11.6) with ESMTP id fAL1V1a23446; Tue, 20 Nov 2001 17:31:01 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from jan@caustic.org) Date: Tue, 20 Nov 2001 17:31:01 -0800 (PST) From: "f.johan.beisser" X-X-Sender: To: Bob Cc: Subject: Re: sshd error In-Reply-To: Message-ID: <20011120172819.P16958-100000@localhost> X-Ignore: This statement isn't supposed to be read by you X-TO-THE-FBI-CIA-AND-NSA: HI! HOW YA DOIN? MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII 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 On Tue, 20 Nov 2001, Bob wrote: > am new to the list and FreeBSD, so please excuse me if this is not the > right place to ask this question. this is the right place. hopefully we can help you. > When I try to start sshd, I get error messages. > sshd[336]: error: Bind to port 22 on :: failed: Address already in use. > > any suggestions, pointers, etc are greatly appreciated. check to see if sshd is already running. what may be happening is that it's failing because of a daemon already running. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message