From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Feb 13 19:55:51 2004 Return-Path: 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 9E2A916A4CE for ; Fri, 13 Feb 2004 19:55:51 -0800 (PST) Received: from smtp-2.mdc.net (smtp-2.mdc.net [209.251.64.26]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2C5AB43D1F for ; Fri, 13 Feb 2004 19:55:51 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from matthew@netway.com) Received: from admin1.mdc.net (admin1.mdc.net [209.251.64.23]) by smtp-2.mdc.net (8.9.3/8.9.1) with ESMTP id WAA95267; Fri, 13 Feb 2004 22:55:01 -0500 (EST) (envelope-from matthew@netway.com) Date: Fri, 13 Feb 2004 22:54:55 -0500 (EST) From: matthew X-X-Sender: matthew@admin1.mdc.net To: Dragoncrest In-Reply-To: <5.2.0.9.2.20040213223723.00a1b0f0@pop.voyager.net> Message-ID: <20040213225235.U84454@admin1.mdc.net> References: <5.2.0.9.2.20040213223723.00a1b0f0@pop.voyager.net> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: SSH problem partially solved!! Still need help. X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sat, 14 Feb 2004 03:55:51 -0000 On Fri, 13 Feb 2004, Dragoncrest wrote: > Ok, I finally figured out why my configs weren't loading for > ssh. Apparently when you startup SSHD it loads some weird default > sshd_config file that I can't seem to find. However, if I specify "sshd -f > /etc/ssh/sshd_config" it will load my config file and my ssh works the way > it should. Now I can obviously edit my /usr/local/etc/rc.d/sshd.sh file to > do this on startup, but it's baffling the living heck out of me as to why > sshd doesn't load the default /etc/ssh/sshd_config file when you load it > from the command prompt by typing "/usr/sbin/sshd". > Look in /usr/local/etc/ sshd proably checks there first. this sort of thing happened to me with procmail and procmail.rc. Until of course i read the man page. sshd will refuse to start if no config file. I reckon it is in there. also a locate sshd_config after running /etc/per*/week*/310* to update the search db. Almost there. m > Anyone got any idea what setting in the system dictates to sshd what the > default config file is? I'm guessing that there's gotta be something I'm > missing somewhere as to why sshd isn't loading the default config file like > it should short of specifying it by hand. > > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" >