SSH CVS problem

[Phil Edwards]

On Thu, Jan 23, 2003 at 10:06:57PM -0700, law@redhat.com wrote:
> In message <200301240439.XAA23822@makai.watson.ibm.com>, David Edelsohn writes:
>  >	Sometime between 9:49pm EST and 11:30pm EST on Thursday, SSH
>  >started refusing connections from me:
>  >
>  >Updating CVS tree
>  >ssh: connect to address 66.187.233.205 port 22: Connection refused
>  >cvs [update aborted]: end of file from server (consult above messages if any)
>  >Adjusting file timestamps
>  >CVS update of full tree failed.
>  >
>  >
>  >	Did someone change an IP address filter?
> More likely this means the SSH server has died or something like
> that -- I can't connect to the SSH server either.

So who's in the Raleigh office that can walk over to the box and frob it?

On a longer-term note, wasn't sshd running under one of those "supervisory"
programs that would notice such a crash and restart it?  Even just running
it out of inittab might work.


Phil

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