Portable OpenSSH 2.5.1p1: daemontools-aware?

Jos Backus josb at cncdsl.com
Tue Feb 20 12:13:45 EST 2001


On Mon, Feb 19, 2001 at 06:51:47PM -0600, mouring at etoh.eviladmin.org wrote:
> I have no clue who/what Dan Bernstein's tools are..

daemontools is a collection of tools for managing UNIX services.

    http://cr.yp.to/daemontools.html

> but 2.5.1 supports:
> 
> sshd -d 
> 
>      -D      When this option is specified sshd will not detach and does not
>              become a daemon.  This allows easy monitoring of sshd.

A patch seems still necessary, according to this message:

> From: Antonio Dias <accdias at sst.com.br>
> To:  <log at list.cr.yp.to>
> Subject: ANNOUNCE: Patch for OpenSSH 2.5.1p1 run under tcpserver
>
> Since OpenSSH 2.5.1p1 doesn't include support for tcpserver and logging to
> stdout (that new -D flag doesn't work and is useless) I've updated my
> patch to this version. The diff file is available at
>
>       <http://storm.sst.com.br/openssh-2.5.1p1-daemontools.diff>

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