Date: Tue, 7 Jan 2003 13:37:31 -0600 From: Mike Meyer <mwm-dated-1042400251.064a51@mired.org> To: Andrew Prewett <andrew+freebsd-questions@kronos.HomeUnix.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Deleted VAR Message-ID: <15899.11387.156085.303405@guru.mired.org> In-Reply-To: <20030107200941.F63741@slave.east.ath.cx> References: <DAV28b3F45qHjDv4IiK00000142@hotmail.com> <15899.5780.980725.387591@guru.mired.org> <DAV62wRFzYPKmnXdv240000e5e6@hotmail.com> <15899.8300.60339.429750@guru.mired.org> <20030107200941.F63741@slave.east.ath.cx>
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In <20030107200941.F63741@slave.east.ath.cx>, Andrew Prewett <andrew@kronos.HomeUnix.com> typed: > Today Mike Meyer wrote: > > [Context lost to top posting.] > > > > In <DAV62wRFzYPKmnXdv240000e5e6@hotmail.com>, Kenzo <kenzo_chin@hotmail.com> typed: > > > Yes, that worked, but now I can't sshd to it anymore. > > > looking in the auth.log file, it sais " Bind to port 22 on 0.0.0.0 failed > > > address already in use. > > > so I edit the file /etc/ssh/sshd_config to ListenAddress 10.25.2.60 ( the > > > server's address ) then restart. > > > in auth.log, it says " Server Listening on 10.25.2.60 port 22 > > > > > > but it still doesn't work. what else do I need to do? > > Put /etc/ssh/sshd_config back the way it was. Then kill and restart > > the ssh daemon. Again, rebooting the system to cause any daemons that > > have files in /var open to close them - thus freeing the space - and > > reopen with real files is a good idea. > No, except few cases (new kernel, hw change), you newer must reboot the > system. It's not a windoze. If a program (process) is killed/terminated, then > all opened files will be closed (implicitly or explicitly). True, you don't have to reboot. However, I'd do it because that's faster than finding every process that has an open file and /var and killing and restarting those processes. If you really don't want him to reboot, please tell him how to find and restart all those processes. <mike -- Mike Meyer <mwm@mired.org> http://www.mired.org/consulting.html Independent WWW/Perforce/FreeBSD/Unix consultant, email for more information. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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