On Wed, 2003-07-02 at 13:46, Greg Meyer wrote: > On Wednesday 02 July 2003 03:31 pm, David Rankin wrote: > > Greg, > > > > At least in 7.2 I have had sshd running for over 400 days without > > any stops. My guess is that it is just an extra precaution in case of > > power failure and the event that sshd isn't started in the default > > run-level. > > > As an anal accountant, I just hate it showing up in my logs every 5 minutes, > especially when it is always running. Perahps there is a way for it to only > make a log entry if it actually has to do something. > > I wonder also if it has anything to do with some of the connection errors I > have been getting since being on 9.1. I tunnel vnc through ssh so I can > access my machine from work. I find that 3 or 4 times throughout the day, > PuTTy is giving me a connection error. Since I uninstalled sshd-monitor, I > have not had this happen. Perhaps somehow the restart blows the connection.
Makes sense. If it's happening every 5 minutes your chances of coming in at just the wrong time are pretty good. There should have been a config file somewhere that would allow for the changing of the time interval. But... if it's gone and it works... don't fix it *grin* James
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