Greg Meyer grabbed a keyboard and wrote:
> I asked this question on newbie, and I got no answer, so I'll repost here.
>
> Is anybody wiling to enlighten me as to what sshd-restarter does, and why
> it runs every 5 minutes?
It does exactly what the name implies. It checks for a dead ssh daemon,
and restarts it.
Typically, it never finds anything wrong and so it doesn't do anything.
But it is small, and hurts nothing. Plus, if you're travelling and are
depending on ssh for your way to login remotely, having the ssh daemon
decide to die then when you can't directly do anthing about it is a Bad
Thing.
Thus, I've always left the ssh-monitor package in and running. Like I
said, it has a really small footprint, so I consider it to be cheap
insurance. :-)
--Dave
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