On Mon, Nov 16, 2009 at 08:31:49PM +0100, Polytropon wrote: > 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. >
darn, but that would've been that last thing i would have expected... . i dont see any rationale... > > > > -- > Polytropon > Magdeburg, Germany > Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 > Andra moi ennepe, Mousa, ... -- Gary Kline kl...@thought.org http://www.thought.org Public Service Unix http://jottings.thought.org http://transfinite.thought.org The 7.31a release of Jottings: http://jottings.thought.org/index.php _______________________________________________ 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"