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Date:      Tue, 7 Jan 2003 20:17:23 +0100 (CET)
From:      Andrew Prewett <andrew@kronos.HomeUnix.com>
To:        freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Deleted VAR
Message-ID:  <20030107200941.F63741@slave.east.ath.cx>
In-Reply-To: <15899.8300.60339.429750@guru.mired.org>
References:  <DAV28b3F45qHjDv4IiK00000142@hotmail.com> <15899.5780.980725.387591@guru.mired.org> <DAV62wRFzYPKmnXdv240000e5e6@hotmail.com> <15899.8300.60339.429750@guru.mired.org>

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Today Mike Meyer wrote:

> [Context lost to top posting.]
>
> In <DAV62wRFzYPKmnXdv240000e5e6@hotmail.com>, Kenzo <kenzo_chin@hotmail.com> typed:
> > Yes, that worked, but now I can't sshd to it anymore.
> > looking in the auth.log file, it sais " Bind to port 22 on 0.0.0.0 failed
> > address already in use.
> > so I edit the file /etc/ssh/sshd_config to ListenAddress 10.25.2.60 ( the
> > server's address ) then restart.
> > in auth.log, it says " Server Listening on 10.25.2.60 port 22
> >
> > but it still doesn't work.  what else do I need to do?
>
> Put /etc/ssh/sshd_config back the way it was. Then kill and restart
> the ssh daemon. Again, rebooting the system to cause any daemons that
> have files in /var open to close them - thus freeing the space - and
> reopen with real files is a good idea.

 No, except few cases (new kernel, hw change), you newer must reboot the
system. It's not a windoze. If a program (process) is killed/terminated, then
all opened files will be closed (implicitly or explicitly).

	-andrew


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