sshd dead but pidfile exitst?? 1

[cfvogue]

Hi,

i just started with linux. I run redhat 9. i have a router connected to my adsl modem and my pc, laptop and linuxbox all have access to the internet. That works fine. Samba works fine too on my linuxbox, as i can exchange files without a problem. Also, apache webserver is running allright and i can access the default index.html on the linuxbox with my laptop.

The prob is: how do i get SSH to work? When i try to ssh from my laptop (using putty) i get an error: "connection failure"

i used to be ale to ssh to my linuxbox when i didn't have the router yet and had linuxbox configured as a dhcpserver itself.

when i check the sshd status (with the graphic interface) it says "sshd dead, but pid file exists".
when i try to stop it it gives an error too.

hope someone can help me out.
i'm just not enough into linux yet.

tnx!
cfvogue

 

[fluid11]

Is SSH running right now at all? Run "ps -ef | grep ssh" to find out. If its running, kill the processes and then search for its pid if one exists. If you find the sshd.pid file, delete it. Mine is /var/run/sshd.pid. If you need help locating the pid file, run "updatedb && locate pid | grep ssh". After you delete the pid file, you should be able to start the service back up.

ChrisP

 

[cfvogue]

Hi fluid11,

tnx a lot for your reply.
I did what you told me, but it won't let me remove sshd.pid in /var/run
Even when i try to chmod the file as su it says operation permitted. Is there a way to force it?

tnx again

 

[fluid11]

Make sure that SSH isn't running and then run "rm -f /var/run/sshd.pid" as root. If that doesn't work, then try...

chattr -i /var/run/sshd.pid
rm -f /var/run/sshd.pid

Make sure your logged in as root when you do this.


ChrisP

 

[cfvogue]

Thanx a lot fluid11,

That did the job. It works fine now!!!