Simple steps Re: [ale] Another SSH Release?

[James P. Kinney III]

On Wed, 2003-09-17 at 11:08, Jim Popovitch wrote:
> On Wed, 2003-09-17 at 11:04, John Mills wrote:
> 
> > 5. Now start the new animal:
> >  # cd /etc/rc.d/init.d
> >  # ./sshd stop
> >  # ./sshd start
> 
> WARNING: "Danger Will Robinson!"
> 
> I did something similar to this on a remote box yesterday, not knowing
> that the sshd startup script had changed from "kill $PID" to "killall
> $SSHD".  The prior had previously killed just the server daemon, the
> later killed all running instances... including the one I was using at
> the time.  The end result is that I now have an orphaned box out there
> in the wild.  Looking on the bright side, it is no longer susceptible to
> openssh bugs.  ;)

Bwaahahahaha!! I can feel your pain! I've hosed remote machines
 changing iptables and locked myself out enough that I now use a firewall change script.
If I don't stop the script with a kill, after 30 seconds it restores the
previous firewall setup. Nothing like a 40 minute drive at midnight
because of "a last minute before bed tweak" :)

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