On Tue, Sep 15, 2009 at 03:16:53PM +0100, Colin Watson wrote:
> > The ssh init script fails to do anything usefull of echo fails with EIO
> > because of the set -e. Standard output is /dev/console during the
> > initial startup.
> >
> > /dev/console is a special device. It may generate EIO on writing if
> > no backend device is connected to it, aka while the console is
> > missconfigured or broken. Such a system will boot up normal but the sshd
> > will be missing, which may be needed to fix things.
>
> OK, but /etc/init.d/ssh doesn't echo anything directly; it just uses the
> LSB init functions. I think they ought to be changed to explicitly
> discard errors from console writes as appropriate.
The LSB init script example explicitely stat that you must not use
"set -e".
Bastian
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