Re: Wierd monit/sshd interaction

[Mark Ferlatte]

On Mon, Jul 29, 2002 at 12:23:34AM +0200, Jan-Henrik Haukeland wrote (0.40):
> From the trace file you can see that the script /etc/init.d/ssh calls
> the actually binary wrongly:
> 
> execve("/usr/sbin/sshd", ["/usr/sbin/sshd", "-?"], [/* 2 vars */]) = 0
> 
> with the result later down:
> 
> [pid 23315] write(2, "sshd: illegal option -- ?\n", 26) = 26

Sorry, I didn't reply to this specifically: the Debian ssh startup
script calls sshd with -? initially to ensure that you're not using the
openssh startup script with the commercial ssh.com sshd.  I probably
should have trimmed the tracefile down a bit before I mailed it.

Martin Pala's analysis was correct.

M

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