On 2009-05-20 16:40, Glen Barber wrote:
> sshd was listening on :25, both IPv4 and IPv6
> sendmail was listening on :25 (because I had forgotten to disable it)
> 
> The system boots, and sendmail starts before sshd.  When sshd starts
> (or tries to) there is no console output that it had failed.  The only
> way you realize it is not running, is when you cannot remotely log in.

Yes, this is unfortunate, but normal, as I explained in an earlier post.

The sshd process does not return any error (and thus the /etc/rc.d
script doesn't either), because it has no way to know that its forked
copy died.

The solution to this PR is "don't run stuff on conflicting ports". :)
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