Date: Mon, 16 Nov 2009 20:31:49 +0100 From: Polytropon <freebsd@edvax.de> To: Gary Kline <kline@thought.org> Cc: FreeBSD Mailing List <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: no sshd on new server... Message-ID: <20091116203149.1785f7c1.freebsd@edvax.de> In-Reply-To: <20091116070056.GE11539@thought.org> References: <20091115234930.GA11465@thought.org> <20091116010014.f3ca28de.freebsd@edvax.de> <20091116070056.GE11539@thought.org>
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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.
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Polytropon
Magdeburg, Germany
Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0
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