re: inetd[520]

[rfa]

followup on my question earlier about the warning

inetd[520] ssh/tcp : bind; Address already in use

I only got this message recently, and im sure i didnt do anything about
inetd, also at the start of configuring freebsd, i confirmed sshd should
run from inetd(i think) anyway is there a way to confirm how sshd
starts up?

[the guy who respondd said sshd might be running out of sshd and consuming
resources i think, i accidentally erased his email]

i man'd inetd and saw that the configuration file was /etc/inetd.conf and
i checked that out...

i only uncommented sshd and ftpd so i don't think i am running sshd out of
inetd

can someone explain this baffling error?  its coz of this i can't use web
services from this box, although this box is still providing apache
services

yours,

rommel
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Re: inetd[520] ssh/tcp: bind: Address already in use ???

[Matthew Seaman]

On Thu, Mar 04, 2004 at 03:45:41PM +0800, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> I rebooted my system and wondered why the commadn line said
> 
> Mar  4  15:13:16 rfa inetd[520]: ssh/tcp: bind: Address already in use
> 

Because you shouldn't be trying to run sshd(8) standalone and out of
inetd(8) at the same time.  I'd advise you not to run sshd(8) out of
inetd(8): sshd(8) has to do quite a lot of heavy crypto stuff when it
starts up, and running it out of inetd will force it to do that for
every new connection.  You're quite likely to end up running out of
random numbers from /dev/random and seeing your ssh connections
hanging.

Cheers,

Matthew

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