Simple steps Re: [ale] Another SSH Release?

[Michael Still]

I did the same thing to my box at home. Thankfully I was only 2 feet 
from it.  Maybe try using nohup next time on the restart command.

On Wed, 17 Sep 2003 11:10AM -0500, Jim Popovitch wrote:
> On Wed, 2003-09-17 at 11:04, John Mills wrote:
>
>>  5. Now start the new animal:
>>   # cd /etc/rc.d/init.d
>>   # ./sshd stop
>>   # ./sshd start
>
> WARNING: "Danger Will Robinson!"
>
> I did something similar to this on a remote box yesterday, not knowing
> that the sshd startup script had changed from "kill $PID" to "killall
> $SSHD".  The prior had previously killed just the server daemon, the
> later killed all running instances... including the one I was using at
> the time.  The end result is that I now have an orphaned box out there
> in the wild.  Looking on the bright side, it is no longer susceptible 
> to
> openssh bugs.  ;)
>
> -Jim P.
>
>
>
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