On Thu, Feb 20, 2003 at 04:02:50PM -0600, Mailing List wrote: > We seem to have an issue with one of our Debian servers. > > When we go to reboot or such, SSH will not start, even though it's set to do > so. We can't get it to manually start either. We have had to go in and do > the following > > > rm -f /dev/null > mknod -m 666 /dev/null c 1 3 > > Then we restart SSH and all is fine. Sometimes this will effect Apache but > not as much as SSH on this particular box.
Well, certainly the /dev/null thing is a smoking gun; sshd won't start if it's broken (and possibly other servers will have problems too, since the reason sshd won't start under those circumstances is that the daemon() library call needs a working /dev/null). I guess you just have to find out what's trashing that device node, perhaps by inserting 'ls -l /dev/null' at various stages in the shutdown and boot processes ... if you figure it out, please tell us. -- Colin Watson [[EMAIL PROTECTED]] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
