Simple steps Re: [ale] Another SSH Release?

Christopher Fowler cfowler at outpostsentinel.com
Wed Sep 17 11:56:48 EDT 2003


On Wed, Sep 17, 2003 at 11:53:22AM -0400, Jim Popovitch wrote:
> On Wed, 2003-09-17 at 11:41, Christopher Fowler wrote:
> 
> > echo "./sshd stop;sshd start" | at now + 1 minute
> > 
> 
> See, it's stuff like that that causes problems for others.. :)
> 
> Chris, I know your intentions were honest and good, but doing that would
> cause the exact same scenario.  Stuff like this can't be tested
> remotely, it needs to work and work without causing problems.   In the
> case of SSH, there is no compelling reason to use killall, only the SSH
> server daemon needs to be restarted.. all the client processes will die
> when they exit.

This is why my machines are under console management.  Not headless, but 
console management.  I do not even think about upgrading a kernel remotely
unless I can see "lilo:" over my serial console connection.

> 
> Chris, I believe (again this hasn't been tested) that you meant to say:
> 
> echo "/etc/init.d/sshd stop; /etc/init.d/sshd start" | at now + 1 minute

The path is not needed since the original email had a cd into /etc/init.d
> 
> 
> -Jim P.
> 
> 
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