Re: sshd won't start on FC4

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Yes, sshd is running, but any attempts to connect from another host on
the network fail, and port scans reveal that there is nothing
listening on port 22.

I can live with telling sshd to only listen on IPV4 interfaces -- it
just doesn't seem like I should have to.

Patrick


On 9/26/05, replies-lists-redhat@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
<replies-lists-redhat@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> i believe that if you check you'll see that sshd is actually running.
> the error you got is a somewhat spurious ipv6 related issue, but it's
> running on ipv4.
>
>
> ------------ Original Message ------------
> > Date: Monday, September 26, 2005 02:16:04 PM -0700
> > From: patrick <gibblertron@xxxxxxxxx>
> > To: For users of Fedora Core releases <fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx>
> > Subject: sshd won't start on FC4
> >
> > I installed a fresh, minimal install of FC4 (picked Custom install,
> > and left out all extras). For some reason, sshd won't start. The logs
> > show:
> >
> > sshd[2658]: error: Bind to port 22 on 0.0.0.0 failed: Address already
> > in use.
> >
> > After some Googling, it seems that IPV6 is to blame, and adding
> > "AddressFamily inet" to /etc/ssh/sshd_config, seems to do the trick.
> > Someone said that it fails because it's trying to bind to port 22 on
> > IPV4 and IPV6 addresses, though I don't know enough about how that
> > works to confirm or deny that possibility.
> >
> > I find it extremely difficult to believe that sshd wouldn't work out
> > of the box for on Fedora, but I also don't see anything wrong with how
> > I installed it. I'm coming from a FreeBSD background, and I'm used to
> > these things just working. Am I missing something here?
> >
> > Thanks,
> >
> > Patrick
> >
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