monitoring sshd generates socket failures in auth.log

[Marcus Mülbüsch]

Hello list,

   I don't know, when it started, but in /var/log/auth.log I now have 
error messages like this one (I set "LogLevel DBUG" for sshd):

> debug1: SSH2_MSG_KEXINIT sent [preauth]
> fatal: Read from socket failed: Connection reset by peer [preauth]

   This is generated by the line

> if failed port 22 protocol ssh then restart

in the monitrc-file

   It doesn't make a difference, whether I specify a host or not (i.e. 
"host localhost" or "host 127.0.0.1" or "host 192.168.1.1")

   monit does not record anything out of the ordinary: sshd is fully 
functional for it.

   Additionally a ssh-connect from the host itself generates no error:

> # ssh localhost
> debug1: SSH2_MSG_KEXINIT sent [preauth]
> debug1: SSH2_MSG_KEXINIT received [preauth]

   What can I do to stop filling my logfile with "fatal" errors?

   I do have that problem with monit-5.5 and monit-5.8 on gentoo; I do 
not have a similar entry in a log file with monit-5.2.5 on a centos-5 
server nor with a monit-5.5 on a Ubuntu 10.04.4 LTS.

   So it has probably something to do with gentoo and openrc? But 
duckduckgoing around provided no useful hints.

Marcus

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Marcus Mülbüsch
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