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Date:      Wed, 10 Apr 2002 09:58:51 +0300
From:      Peter Pentchev <roam@ringlet.net>
To:        Andrew McNaughton <andrew@scoop.co.nz>
Cc:        "Jacques A. Vidrine" <nectar@FreeBSD.ORG>, X Philius <xphilius@yahoo.com>, freebsd-security@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Verifying that a security patch has done it's thing...
Message-ID:  <20020410095851.C347@straylight.oblivion.bg>
In-Reply-To: <20020410052724.H12945-100000@a2>; from andrew@scoop.co.nz on Wed, Apr 10, 2002 at 05:28:58AM %2B1200
References:  <20020409172127.GN19961@madman.nectar.cc> <20020410052724.H12945-100000@a2>

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On Wed, Apr 10, 2002 at 05:28:58AM +1200, Andrew McNaughton wrote:
>=20
>=20
> On Tue, 9 Apr 2002, Jacques A. Vidrine wrote:
>=20
> > On Tue, Apr 09, 2002 at 10:18:17AM -0700, X Philius wrote:
> > [deletia ... thanks for the kind words!]
> >
> > > I assume I can find the PID by running ps -x as well,
> > > correct? It would be the process ID for /usr/sbin/sshd...
> >
> > Well, there will be more than one instance of sshd: the master, plus
> > one for every active SSH connection.  You don't want to shoot the
> > wrong process, especially if SSH is your primary or only means of
> > accessing the box. :-)
>=20
> In which case you might be well advised to have a cron job which checks on
> it every so often and attempts to restart if it dies.  No help if the
> server won't start though

Or (dons asbestos suit) daemontools's supervise(1) in combination with
the sshd(8)'s -D flag.

G'luck,
Peter

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