daemon() failed

[Joel Ebel]

A friend of mine is having an issue running sshd as a daemon.  I don't 
have full access to this box, so troubleshooting may be difficult, but 
from what I can gather, the call to daemon() is failing.  sshd -D works 
fine, but sshd -e returns "daemon() failed: Success" , which is in and 
of itself funny.  This is Slackware 10.0, with openssh 3.8.1p1 and glibc 
2.3.2.  I have several slack 10 boxes with this same combination that 
work fine, so he must have done something funny, but I can't figure out 
what.  I reinstalled both openssh and glibc to make sure they were all 
there, and ran ldconfig.  It didn't fix the problem.  I'm kind of 
stumped as to why the call to daemon() would fail.  Any ideas?

Thanks,
Joel