daemon() failed

[Joel Ebel]

We figured this one out.  Apparently, /dev/null had gotten corrupted. 
So if you run into this problem on Linux, check to make sure /dev/null 
is actually a character device and has permissions 666.

Joel

Joel Ebel wrote:
> 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
> 
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