Re: [CentOS] Problem with SSHD update.

2011-01-07 Thread chuck s
Frank Cox thea...@... writes: On Mon, 2010-09-13 at 12:59 -0400, James B. Byrne wrote: What is the procedure to remove the latest openssh packages and replace them with the previous ones? I'm not sure you can do that directly with yum (though someone can correct me there) but you

[CentOS] Problem with SSHD update.

2010-09-14 Thread R P Herrold
On Mon, 13 Sep 2010, Karanbir Singh wrote: So, I'm quite keen on finding out what is it that is causing the breakage for you Karanbir, in the middle of the thread from the archive: James B. Byrne at Mon Sep 13 12:59:25 EDT 2010 Did that via webmin's command interface and nothing changed

Re: [CentOS] Problem with SSHD update.

2010-09-14 Thread John Doe
From: James B. Byrne byrn...@harte-lyne.ca Starting sshd: Auto configuration failed 6486:error:0E065068:configuration file routines:STR_COPY:variable has no value:conf_def.c:629:line 207 [FAILED] Maybe did you check line 207 of sshd_config...? JD

Re: [CentOS] Problem with SSHD update.

2010-09-14 Thread James B. Byrne
On Mon, September 13, 2010 19:23, Gilbert Sebenste wrote: On Mon, 13 Sep 2010, Karanbir Singh wrote: This matter is somewhat urgent. Totally! broken sshd could cause non-trivial issues for a lot of people. However, I can confirm that: * prov-kickstart-c5.5-i386 : sshd tests PASS * yum

Re: [CentOS] Problem with SSHD update.

2010-09-14 Thread Rob Del Vecchio
yum check-update does not report that there is a more recent openssh available. Odd. Clear your yum cache? Since you used yum to update the package in the first place, yum may have stored that I already downloaded this data somewhere. FYI, I am not experienced in yum specifically (debian

Re: [CentOS] Problem with SSHD update.

2010-09-14 Thread m . roth
Rob Del Vecchio wrote: yum check-update does not report that there is a more recent openssh available. Odd. Clear your yum cache? Since you used yum to update the package in the first place, yum may have stored that I already downloaded this data somewhere. snip I agree - yum clean all,

[CentOS] Problem with SSHD update.

2010-09-13 Thread James B. Byrne
This morning I applied the 13 or so new updates to my servers. On one of them the ssh service and clients stopped working immediately after the update. I restarted the server in anticipation that there might be some instability introduced by updating on a system with active ssh connections.

Re: [CentOS] Problem with SSHD update.

2010-09-13 Thread James B. Byrne
On Mon, September 13, 2010 11:01, James B. Byrne wrote: This morning I applied the 13 or so new updates to my servers. On one of them the ssh service and clients stopped working immediately after the update. . . . The error I am getting when attempting to start the sshd service is this:

Re: [CentOS] Problem with SSHD update.

2010-09-13 Thread Joseph L. Casale
I replaced the sshd_config on the affected server with a copy of that which came with the package and the same error occurs. Whatever is causing this, it does not seem to be related the the sshd_config file. Selinux enabled? ___ CentOS mailing list

Re: [CentOS] Problem with SSHD update.

2010-09-13 Thread James B. Byrne
On: Mon Sep 13 11:41:17 EDT 2010, Joseph L. Casale jcasale at activenetwerx.com wrote: Selinux enabled? Yes. -- *** E-Mail is NOT a SECURE channel *** James B. Byrnemailto:byrn...@harte-lyne.ca Harte Lyne Limited http://www.harte-lyne.ca 9 Brockley

Re: [CentOS] Problem with SSHD update.

2010-09-13 Thread Joseph L. Casale
Selinux enabled? Yes. Any errors when you start sshd? Check the contexts... Maybe a fixfiles -R on that package. ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos

Re: [CentOS] Problem with SSHD update.

2010-09-13 Thread Benjamin Franz
On 09/13/2010 08:55 AM, James B. Byrne wrote: On: Mon Sep 13 11:41:17 EDT 2010, Joseph L. Casale jcasale at activenetwerx.com wrote: Selinux enabled? Yes. Then you should check your logs to see if SELinux is blocking it for some reason. You could also try turning SELinux off

Re: [CentOS] Problem with SSHD update.

2010-09-13 Thread James B. Byrne
Set selinux=permissive in /etc/selinux/config Rebooted system tried to restart sshd Starting sshd: Auto configuration failed 3600:error:0E065068:configuration file routines:STR_COPY:variable has no value:conf_def.c:629:line 207 [FAILED] Same error. I point out at that the other servers that

Re: [CentOS] Problem with SSHD update.

2010-09-13 Thread Joseph L. Casale
Set selinux=permissive in /etc/selinux/config Rebooted system tried to restart sshd Starting sshd: Auto configuration failed 3600:error:0E065068:configuration file routines:STR_COPY:variable has no value:conf_def.c:629:line 207 [FAILED] Same error. I point out at that the other servers that

Re: [CentOS] Problem with SSHD update.

2010-09-13 Thread Mário Barbosa
James B. Byrne wrote: This morning I applied the 13 or so new updates to my servers. On one of them the ssh service and clients stopped working immediately after the update. I restarted the server in anticipation that there might be some instability introduced by updating on a system with

Re: [CentOS] Problem with SSHD update.

2010-09-13 Thread James B. Byrne
On Mon Sep 13 12:34:49 EDT 2010, Joseph L. Casale jcasale at activenetwerx.com wrote: Run an `rpm -Va` maybe the ssh package or a one it needs had something tank in the upgrade... Did that via webmin's command interface and nothing changed insofar as I can see. Same error obtained when

Re: [CentOS] Problem with SSHD update.

2010-09-13 Thread James B. Byrne
This is the entire session for the update on that server: [r...@inet01 ~]# yum update Loaded plugins: fastestmirror, priorities Loading mirror speeds from cached hostfile * addons: centos.mirror.iweb.ca * base: centos.mirror.iweb.ca * extras: centos.mirror.iweb.ca * updates:

Re: [CentOS] Problem with SSHD update.

2010-09-13 Thread James B. Byrne
Looking at the install logs I see that openssl has not been touched for some time: /var/log/yum.log.2:Jan 09 09:35:34 Updated: openssl - 0.9.8b-10.el5_2.1.i686 /var/log/yum.log.2:Jan 09 09:35:43 Updated: openssl-devel - 0.9.8b-10.el5_2.1.i386 /var/log/yum.log.2:Apr 03 19:14:55 Updated:

Re: [CentOS] Problem with SSHD update.

2010-09-13 Thread Frank Cox
On Mon, 2010-09-13 at 12:59 -0400, James B. Byrne wrote: What is the procedure to remove the latest openssh packages and replace them with the previous ones? I'm not sure you can do that directly with yum (though someone can correct me there) but you could do it by downloading the rpm packages

Re: [CentOS] Problem with SSHD update.

2010-09-13 Thread Karanbir Singh
On 09/13/2010 04:01 PM, James B. Byrne wrote: Starting sshd: Auto configuration failed 6486:error:0E065068:configuration file routines:STR_COPY:variable has no value:conf_def.c:629:line 207 [FAILED] ... This matter is somewhat urgent. Totally! broken sshd could cause non-trivial issues for a

Re: [CentOS] Problem with SSHD update.

2010-09-13 Thread Gilbert Sebenste
On Mon, 13 Sep 2010, Karanbir Singh wrote: This matter is somewhat urgent. Totally! broken sshd could cause non-trivial issues for a lot of people. However, I can confirm that: * prov-kickstart-c5.5-i386 : sshd tests PASS * yum -y update : sshd tests PASS [1] * yum install latest updates