Shawn,
Thanks for that. Unfortunately it's happened on 2.5.1, 2.6, 2.7 machines
and both the 2.51 and 2.6 machines have the patches listed below. I don't
think there are relevant patches for 2.7 relating to TCP panics
Thanks
Paul
----- Original Message -----
From: Shawn Robinson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: on-line <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Wednesday, July 05, 2000 10:36 PM
Subject: Re: Sighupping sshd causing machine reboots
> Sun has patched a number of TCP panic issues recently.
>
> Try Sun patches:
> 105529-09
> and
> 105786-12
>
>
> At 05:22 PM 2000/07/05 +0100, on-line wrote:
> >Is anyone aware of a problem with the following command crashing solaris
> >machines to crash when /etc/sshd_config has been modified
> >
> >kill -HUP <sshd.pid>
> >
> >
> >
> >To give some background:
> >I am making a change to /etc/sshd_config on a number of machines in order
> >to change the following fields to tighten security
> > AllowHosts nn1.nn1.* nn2.nn2.*
> > EmptyPasswords No
> > RhostsAuthentication No
> >
> >
> >I am running ssh 1.2.26, solaris 2.5.1- 2.7
> >About 1 in 15 machines crashed, not exact number, not reproducible (i.e
> >re-running the command works)
> >Nothing in messages file (no panic string)
> >The command itself (when it doesn't crash a machine) works fine and does
> >what it is intended to do
> >The problem seems to be totally sporadic and so far impossible to pin
down
> >
> >Any ideas would be appreciated
> >
> >Thanks
> >
> >Paul Matthews
> >
> >
> >
>
