From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Nov 16 23:12:45 2009 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D3BA2106566C for ; Mon, 16 Nov 2009 23:12:45 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from kline@thought.org) Received: from aristotle.thought.org (aristotle.thought.org [209.180.213.210]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9029B8FC0C for ; Mon, 16 Nov 2009 23:12:45 +0000 (UTC) Received: from thought.org (tao.thought.org [10.47.0.250]) (authenticated bits=0) by aristotle.thought.org (8.14.2/8.14.2) with ESMTP id nAGNCX16027516; Mon, 16 Nov 2009 15:12:33 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from kline@thought.org) Received: by thought.org (nbSMTP-1.00) for uid 1002 kline@thought.org; Mon, 16 Nov 2009 15:12:37 -0800 (PST) Date: Mon, 16 Nov 2009 15:12:36 -0800 From: Gary Kline To: Polytropon Message-ID: <20091116231236.GA15714@thought.org> References: <20091115234930.GA11465@thought.org> <20091116010014.f3ca28de.freebsd@edvax.de> <20091116070056.GE11539@thought.org> <20091116203149.1785f7c1.freebsd@edvax.de> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20091116203149.1785f7c1.freebsd@edvax.de> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.2.3i X-Organization: Thought Unlimited. Public service Unix since 1986. X-Of_Interest: With 23 years of service to the Unix community. X-Spam-Status: No, score=-4.4 required=3.6 tests=ALL_TRUSTED,BAYES_00 autolearn=ham version=3.2.3 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.2.3 (2007-08-08) on aristotle.thought.org Cc: FreeBSD Mailing List Subject: Re: no sshd on new server... X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 16 Nov 2009 23:12:45 -0000 On Mon, Nov 16, 2009 at 08:31:49PM +0100, Polytropon wrote: > On Sun, 15 Nov 2009 23:00:56 -0800, Gary Kline wrote: > > there were stderrs output when i tried to exec sshd. reason > > was that the rc.conf entry was not in rc.conf. (this is all > > going into my .howto file.... > > The rc.d mechanism suggests to use /etc/rc.d/sshd control > script for SSH server operations instead of the "bare" > binary. The control script checks for the variable > ${sshd_enable} which has to be set, or it won't start. > > By the way, it's not a problem if /etc/rc.conf is empty. > In this case, defaults are used, but: > > % grep sshd /etc/defaults/rc.conf > sshd_enable="NO" # Enable sshd > > As you see, sshd_enable is set to "NO" by default. > darn, but that would've been that last thing i would have expected... . i dont see any rationale... > > > > -- > Polytropon > Magdeburg, Germany > Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 > Andra moi ennepe, Mousa, ... -- Gary Kline kline@thought.org http://www.thought.org Public Service Unix http://jottings.thought.org http://transfinite.thought.org The 7.31a release of Jottings: http://jottings.thought.org/index.php