RE: [cobalt-users] Portsentry blocking port 22

["Andy Brown" <andy.brown@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

<snip>
> > telnet in and check that the sshd process is running:
> > ps ax |grep sshd
> 
> > I suspect this is where the problem will be.
> 
> I typed this and first time it did nothing. second time it said:
> 
> 11651  ?  S    0:00 grep sshd
> 
> Third time it said nothing, fourth time it said:
> 
> 11724  ?  S    0:00 grep sshd
> 
> So i typed in:
> 
> ps ax
> 
> and in the list it came up with, I couldn't find anything that I would
> associate with SSH.
> 
> So does this mean its not running? In which case the guy on 
> the phone at my
> ISP is telling porkies!
</snip>

I think he IS telling you porkies,
try issuing a sshd start using something like
/etc/rc.d/init.d/sshd start

And hopefully it'll kick things off again. Sounds like it didn't start at boot-up for some reason.


Also, FYI (Gerald, et al) the portsentry packages puts its config it
/etc/portsentry/
(At least the ones I pkg'd that were on my linuxnetworking site)

Regards,

Andy
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