From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Jan 17 18: 1:56 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from Mail4.mgfairfax.rr.com (fe4.southeast.rr.com [24.93.67.51]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5667637B416 for ; Thu, 17 Jan 2002 18:01:52 -0800 (PST) Received: from there ([24.168.212.227]) by Mail4.mgfairfax.rr.com with Microsoft SMTPSVC(5.5.1877.687.68); Thu, 17 Jan 2002 20:17:40 -0500 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" From: Ray Kohler To: Steven Lake , freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: bootup error Date: Thu, 17 Jan 2002 20:20:37 -0500 X-Mailer: KMail [version 1.3.2] References: In-Reply-To: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Message-ID: <03ce64017011212FE4@Mail4.mgfairfax.rr.com> 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 Wednesday 16 January 2002 10:59 pm, Steven Lake wrote: > Hi all. I'm getting an error on bootup that says "Starting > standard daemons: inetd cron sshd Disabling protocol 1. Could > not load host key." > > Anyone know what that's all about? It won't let my box load. > It goes to starting sendmail after that and locks up. Hit ctrl-C when it gets stuck, that might help you out. It will most likely keep going after a few minutes anyway. Sendmail gets peeved if your IP doesn't reverse lookup (hopefully someone else will tell you how to fix this). To fix sshd, try deleting all the files with "key" in their names in /etc/ssh. -- Ray Kohler As the trials of life continue to take their toll, remember that there is always a future in Computer Maintenance. -- National Lampoon, "Deteriorata" To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message