Scads of defunct processes ins AIX 4.3.3

[Doug E Manton]

Chuck,

There is a better way to manage sshd under AIX.  The AIX SRC (system 
resource controller) can control the SSH daemon, and even respawn it 
should it fall over -- without generating tonnes of unneccessary children. 
 As root, execute:

    mkssys -s sshd -u 0 -p /usr/sbin/sshd -a '-D' -G ssh -R -S -n 15 -f 9

Change /usr/sbin/sshd to wherever you have sshd installed.  The -R
automatically restarts SSH if it ever falls over.  SSH requires the -D
option to prevent it forking (a requirement of the SRC).

You can now start sshd using the command:

    startsrc -s sshd

and stop it using (if you just kill it, SRC will start a new one!):

    stopsrc -s sshd

You can set it to auto start on boot by adding this line to the end of 
/etc/rc.tcpip

    start /usr/sbin/sshd "$src_running"

Hope this is useful!
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  Doug Manton, AT&T EMEA Commercial Security Solutions

              E:  demanton at att.com
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