On Sun, 15 Nov 2009 23:00:56 -0800, Gary Kline <kl...@thought.org> wrote: > there were stderrs output when i tried to exec sshd. reason > was that the rc.conf entry was not in rc.conf. (this is all > going into my .howto file....
The rc.d mechanism suggests to use /etc/rc.d/sshd control script for SSH server operations instead of the "bare" binary. The control script checks for the variable ${sshd_enable} which has to be set, or it won't start. By the way, it's not a problem if /etc/rc.conf is empty. In this case, defaults are used, but: % grep sshd /etc/defaults/rc.conf sshd_enable="NO" # Enable sshd As you see, sshd_enable is set to "NO" by default. -- Polytropon Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 Andra moi ennepe, Mousa, ... _______________________________________________ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"