On Monday 01 July 2002 02:24 am, David Seaton wrote: > Well isn't that wonderful news. > Hopefully it will work out. > > New problem. > Now SSH is not starting. > I rebooted my machine because top showed that system was low on memory. > Now SSH is not starting and i dont know what i did. > There was some issues with /var/empty/sshd, so I created the path. > Now they system won't start.. here is my telnet connection (because no > choice tell ssh is working). > > [root@ns /root]# /etc/rc.d/init.d/sshd start > Starting sshd: This platform does not support both privilege separation and > compression > Compression disabled > Bad owner or mode for /var/empty/sshd > ERROR! > [root@ns /root]# cd /var/empty > [root@ns empty]# ls sshd > [root@ns empty]# rmdir sshd > [root@ns empty]# /etc/rc.d/init.d/sshd start > Starting sshd: This platform does not support both privilege separation and > compression > Compression disabled > Missing privilege separation directory: /var/empty/sshd > ERROR! > [root@ns empty]# > > What does this mean? How do I get SSH back? > mkdir /var/empty chown root:root /var/empty chmod 755 /var/empty
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