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 > > > > -- > > fedora-list mailing list > > fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx > > To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list > > ---------- End Original Message ---------- > >
