"./sshd start" then nothing

[james.cook at utoronto.ca]

On Tue, Mar 08, 2005 at 11:19:45PM -0500, Tsu-Fan Cheng wrote:
> Hi, 
>   I am trying to enable sshd on my freebsd5.4 prerelease (I didn't
> realize this when I cvsup the stable source). Anyway. I read something
> in the mailing list which said that I should go to /etc/rc.d, then
> execute "./sshd start" from there, this will make ssh-keygen to
> generate host key and stuff. I did this and there is nothing, the
> "ssh_host_dsa_key" is not generated. I have another box which runs
> 5.3, and it generates key when I did the same thing. I wonder where
> can it go wrong?

Did you enable ssh in rc.conf?  I'm pretty sure the scripts in rc.d won't
start unless you enable them there.  Alternatively, "./sshd forcestart" should
make it start no matter what.  "man 8 rc.d" for more info.

>   One more thing is that I witnessed there is some weird log appears
> on that 5.3 box when I boot, it goes like this:
> 
>     1338 %parent R  *Handler
>     1339 0 R  Node
>       1340 %desc R  *Handler
>       1341 %driver R  *Handler
>       1342 %location R  *Handler
>       1343 %pnpinfo R  *Handler
>       1344 %parent R  *Handler
>   1345 vga R  Node
>     1346 %parent R  *Handler
>     1347 0 R  Node
>       1348 %desc R  *Handler
>       1349 %driver R  *Handler
>       1350 %location R  *Handler
>       1351 %pnpinfo R  *Handler
>       1352 %parent R  *Handler
> 
> I guess I enable something somewhere but just can't remember, any idea? thansk!
> 
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