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From: Danny <nocmonkey@gmail.com>
To: Jean-Paul Natola <jnatola@familycareintl.org>
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Subject: Re: SSH
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On 6/21/05, Jean-Paul Natola <jnatola@familycareintl.org> wrote:
> Hi everyone,
>=20
> I downloaded Putty  to ssh into my freebsd box
>=20
> This is what I see on the screen
>=20
> SSH-2.0-OpenSSH_3.8.1p1 FreeBSD-20040419
>=20
> And the minute I click enter the screen disappears,,,
>=20
> I checked and SSH  daemon IS running,
>=20
> So what am I missing?

When you login directly from the console, you should review the error
logs.  Become familiar with all the files in /var/log.  Run a 'tail
-30 nameoflogfile' for example.

In particular, for this issue, you will want to focus on
/var/log/messages and /var/log/auth.log

...D