AIX problem

[Jack Gostl]

Most excellent! The first suggestion worked like a champ. (I tried it in a
controlled environment.)

Thanks.

On Sat, 23 Aug 2003, Darren Tucker wrote:

> Jack Gostl wrote:
> > I can buy that. I have no trouble doing the rebuild. The problem is that
> > the remote systems are only accessible through ssh. So I either figure out
> > a smart way to shut it down, reinstall and restart through a batch file or
> > I throw myself on the mercy of the firewall guys. (A pitifully small
> > target.)
> 
> Killing the listening sshd will not kill the running sessions, they'll
> just end up with a ppid of 1.
> 
> You can also do a couple of things to cut down the risk of snookering
> yourself:
> 
> 1) use "./sshd -t" to test your config after building.
> 
> 2) start an sshd on another port, then connect from the host itself:
> 	$ ./sshd -p 2022 -o PidFile=/tmp/sshd.pid
> 	$ ssh -p 2022 localhost
> 
> 3) When doing a "make install", keep a couple of spare sessions running,
> then connect to the new sshd in a new window.
> 
> 

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Jack Gostl	gostl at argoscomp.com