Date: Mon, 16 Nov 2009 15:12:36 -0800 From: Gary Kline <kline@thought.org> To: Polytropon <freebsd@edvax.de> Cc: FreeBSD Mailing List <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: no sshd on new server... Message-ID: <20091116231236.GA15714@thought.org> In-Reply-To: <20091116203149.1785f7c1.freebsd@edvax.de> References: <20091115234930.GA11465@thought.org> <20091116010014.f3ca28de.freebsd@edvax.de> <20091116070056.GE11539@thought.org> <20091116203149.1785f7c1.freebsd@edvax.de>
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On Mon, Nov 16, 2009 at 08:31:49PM +0100, Polytropon wrote:
> On Sun, 15 Nov 2009 23:00:56 -0800, Gary Kline <kline@thought.org> wrote:
> > there were stderrs output when i tried to exec sshd. reason
> > was that the rc.conf entry was not in rc.conf. (this is all
> > going into my .howto file....
>
> The rc.d mechanism suggests to use /etc/rc.d/sshd control
> script for SSH server operations instead of the "bare"
> binary. The control script checks for the variable
> ${sshd_enable} which has to be set, or it won't start.
>
> By the way, it's not a problem if /etc/rc.conf is empty.
> In this case, defaults are used, but:
>
> % grep sshd /etc/defaults/rc.conf
> sshd_enable="NO" # Enable sshd
>
> As you see, sshd_enable is set to "NO" by default.
>
darn, but that would've been that last thing i would have
expected... . i dont see any rationale...
>
>
>
> --
> Polytropon
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