sshd config config file question

[Huy Ton That]

The daemon is up and has been up for a long time. In fact, when I made these
changes to sshd_config, for instance as a test maxauthtries to 3 I also
reloaded it during a ssh terminal session. After which I logged back in and
as a test, purposely errored the tries; it still defaulted to 6 despite the
sshd_config file change and reloading.

when I say I get no message I mean to state as such:

$/etc/rc.d/sshd status <--carriage return
$ <--no message after return.

Thanks Pete.

-Huy

On 7/10/07, pete wright <nomadlogic at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> On 7/10/07, Huy Ton That <huyslogic at gmail.com> wrote:
> > No, it was unhashed. Thanks for pointing it out though. But the strange
> > thing is when I run:
> >
> > /etc/rc.d/sshd status
> >
> > I get no message
> >
> > No message for start, restart, reload etc. I am performing these
> commands as
> > root.
> >
> > Any ideas?
> >
>
>
>
> (couple things, please don't top post, and be sure to keep
> questions at freebsd.org cc'd on this thread so others can help you)
>
> i'm not sure what you mean about "no message".  make sure you have
> sshd_enabled="YES" in your /etc/rc.conf.
>
> also check to see if sshd is running by using "ps".  if it is not, try
> starting it by hand - this will tell you if there are any errors on
> startup.  once it starts cleanly by hand then use the init script in
> /etc/rc.d/sshd.
>
> the man page for sshd is very helpful, and should answer many of the
> questions you may have - including how to start the daemon by hand,
> etc..  type:
> man sshd
>
> -p
>
>
>
>
> --
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> Pete Wright
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