sshd running twice?

[ngxGraz]

Hey guys, I was just making a few changes to an sshd config, when i noticed that.. there's two running? I'm not sure if it's normal, but either way it's preventing the stop command from working properly.

[root@warrior ~]# ps -ef|grep ssh
root     15591     1  0 10:37 ?        00:00:00 sshd: root@pts/1 
root     15655     1  0 10:38 ?        00:00:00 /usr/sbin/sshd
root     15664 15593  0 10:39 pts/1    00:00:00 grep ssh
[root@warrior ~]# /etc/init.d/sshd stop
Stopping sshd:[  OK  ]
[root@warrior ~]# ps -ef|grep ssh
root     15591     1  0 10:37 ?        00:00:00 sshd: root@pts/1 
root     15673 15593  0 10:39 pts/1    00:00:00 grep ssh

so it looks like two sshds are running, and stop will only stop one.
Note that if i try to stop again, it says failed, and also note i did this remotely, so because i didn't get kicked out, i must have killed t he one that wasn't listening.
ALSO note, I know i can just kill the process, but obviously running restart would be easier... but it doesn't restart the right one. Is this normal?

I'm running Enterprise Redhat, thanks.

 

[ngxGraz]

I hope this helps too.

[root@warrior ~]# /etc/init.d/sshd status
sshd (pid 15591) is running...
[root@warrior ~]# /etc/init.d/sshd start
Starting sshd:[  OK  ]
[root@warrior ~]# ps -ef|grep ssh
root     15591     1  0 10:37 ?        00:00:00 sshd: root@pts/1 
root     15722     1  0 10:45 ?        00:00:00 /usr/sbin/sshd
root     15726 15593  0 10:45 pts/1    00:00:00 grep ssh
[root@warrior ~]# /etc/init.d/sshd status
sshd (pid 15722 15591) is running...
[root@warrior ~]# /etc/init.d/sshd stop
Stopping sshd:[  OK  ]
[root@warrior ~]# /etc/init.d/sshd status
sshd (pid 15591) is running...
[root@warrior ~]# /etc/init.d/sshd stop
Stopping sshd:[FAILED]
[root@warrior ~]# /etc/init.d/sshd status
sshd (pid 15591) is running...
[root@warrior ~]# /etc/init.d/sshd start
Starting sshd:[  OK  ]
[root@warrior ~]# ps -ef|grep ssh
root     15591     1  0 10:37 ?        00:00:00 sshd: root@pts/1 
root     15763     1  0 10:45 ?        00:00:00 /usr/sbin/sshd
root     15768 15593  0 10:45 pts/1    00:00:00 grep ssh