Hi Mark, Thanks for your advice
On Thursday 23 October 2003 08:02, Mark Fisher wrote: > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > Hash: SHA1 > > On Thursday 23 Oct 2003 6:05 am, Stephen Liu wrote: > > # /etc/init.d/sshd status > > * status: stopped > > # /etc/init.d/sshd start > > * Bringing eth0 up... > > * Failed to bring eth0 up > > > > * ERROR: Problem starting needed services > > "sshd" was not started. > > > > (Remark: the denotation of NIC of this PC is eth1 because previously it > > had 2 NICs, eth0 and eth1. I removed eth0, the remaining NIC retaining > > eth1) > > After physically removing eth0, did you run the command rc-update del > net.eth0 default ? If so, then I think the problem maybe with the net > virtual service, maybe it still thinks that net.eth0 should be started. Im > having a quick dig around my box and on gentoo.org/google. Ill let you > know if I find anything. I can't recall exactly. eth0 was removed before installing Gentoo 1.4 on this PC about 4 days ago which is for test purpose. But the NIC remaining still indicated eth1. I got some trouble during setup broadband connection but finally solved the problem. How to find it out - snip - > > 2) What tool shall I use to check port 22 not being firewalled off and > > ssh is blocked > > netstat -nat will tell you what ports are listening (netstat -natp to > include processID's ;o) ), between that and iptables -L you should be able > to work out if the service should be available from a particular address. netstat -nat Active Internet connections (servers and established) Proto Recv-Q Send-Q Local Address Foreign Address State tcp 0 0 0.0.0.0:6000 0.0.0.0:* LISTEN # netstat -natp Active Internet connections (servers and established) Proto Recv-Q Send-Q Local Address Foreign Address State PID/Program name tcp 0 0 0.0.0.0:6000 0.0.0.0:* LISTEN 2167/X # iptables -L bash: iptables: command not found # epm -q iptables package iptables is not installed # epm -q ipchains package ipchains is not installed Both iptables and ipchains not installed. B.R. Stephen -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
