Hi All,
I have a question that might be off-topic for this list, but then again
maybe not. How can i tell if a given sshd process is serving ssh? Other than trying to
connect to
it, that is.
This situation i'm trying to work with is like this: There is sshd
running on a box, and there is a script watching to make sure that it's running. But
if someone
logs in via ssh, another sshd process gets spawned for that connection. If that person
were to
somehow kill the sshd server process (the parent of the spawned sshd) then s/he could
continue on
with the connection but nobody else would be able to get in. The watchdog would not
know this
because it would see a sshd in the process list, which is all it is checking for. But
i would like
it to be able to check if the sshd that it's seeing in the process list is actually
serving ssh
or if it is not serving ssh.
Does that question make sense?
Thanks,
j
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