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Date:      Tue, 21 Jun 2005 12:16:11 -0400
From:      Danny <nocmonkey@gmail.com>
To:        Jean-Paul Natola <jnatola@familycareintl.org>
Cc:        freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: SSH
Message-ID:  <addc34c605062109167a251d64@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <3A85D7EF44E1C744BF6434691F5659E948E9A6@fci-ex.FCI>
References:  <3A85D7EF44E1C744BF6434691F5659E948E9A6@fci-ex.FCI>

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On 6/21/05, Jean-Paul Natola <jnatola@familycareintl.org> wrote:
> Hi everyone,
>=20
> I downloaded Putty  to ssh into my freebsd box
>=20
> This is what I see on the screen
>=20
> SSH-2.0-OpenSSH_3.8.1p1 FreeBSD-20040419
>=20
> And the minute I click enter the screen disappears,,,
>=20
> I checked and SSH  daemon IS running,
>=20
> So what am I missing?

When you login directly from the console, you should review the error
logs.  Become familiar with all the files in /var/log.  Run a 'tail
-30 nameoflogfile' for example.

In particular, for this issue, you will want to focus on
/var/log/messages and /var/log/auth.log

...D



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