On Thursday 03 July 2003 05:40 pm, David Guntner wrote: > Greg Meyer grabbed a keyboard and wrote: > > I asked this question on newbie, and I got no answer, so I'll repost > > here. > > > > Is anybody wiling to enlighten me as to what sshd-restarter does, and why > > it runs every 5 minutes? > > It does exactly what the name implies. It checks for a dead ssh daemon, > and restarts it. > > Typically, it never finds anything wrong and so it doesn't do anything. > But it is small, and hurts nothing. Plus, if you're travelling and are > depending on ssh for your way to login remotely, having the ssh daemon > decide to die then when you can't directly do anthing about it is a Bad > Thing. > > Thus, I've always left the ssh-monitor package in and running. Like I > said, it has a really small footprint, so I consider it to be cheap > insurance. :-) > I started having problems with my ssh sessions getting disconnected, so I started looking into this (which is why I asked the question originally) and this is what I have learned.
It appears that the ssh-restarter script is supposed to check and see if sshd is running. If it is, the script is supposed to exit, if it is not, it should restart the daemon. I think the sshd-restarter was restarting sshd periodically on me, even though it was running, and cutting off my ssh sessions. Since I have turned it off, I have not had a remote disconnect event. I used to get three to four a day, and in two days of 8+ hour ssh sessions, I have not had one. -- /g "Outside of a dog, a man's best friend is a book, inside a dog it's too dark to read" -Groucho Marx
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