[Tfug] ssh doesn't start

[Bowie J. Poag]

Is this a new machine, or new install of openssh?

I've seen this on occasion where I work..The daemon will launch, and 
more or less immediately exit if you don't have host keys generated for 
it to work with. Basically, you've launched it, and it says "uhh... hmm, 
no keys. Okay, nothing I can really do here. Seeya.", and exits cleanly 
without throwing any errors.

What do the logs say?


Paul Scott wrote:

> I have several machines on a LAN on which ssh works fine.  One machine
> doesn't have sshd running.  When I do:
> sudo /etc/init.d/ssh start  (or restart)
> I get the correct message about sshd starting or restarting but 'ps ax'
> does not show sshd running and, of course, I can't ssh to that machine.
> There also is no /var/fun/sshd.pid .
>
> TIA for ideas,
>
> Paul Scott
>
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