SSHD Question (posted second time)

[Paul Howarth]

On Sun, 2005-02-27 at 02:07 +0300, Maxim Eremeev wrote:
> It just failed to bind to port 22 on 0.0.0.0 - that does not mean that
> it did not successfully restart. Mine gives the same log entry on
> every restart but works OK. I'd be glad to know what is the exact
> meaning of this "failure", but just out of the pure curiosity, since
> the "failure" does not prevent sshd from operating normally: "if it
> ain't broke don't fix it".

You're right, it ain't broke. It's an IPv6 issue. If you turned off IPv6
support (which you can do by adding "alias net-pf-10 off"
to /etc/modprobe.conf if you really want to do this) the message would
go away. I wouldn't bother though; it's not a problem.

Paul.
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Paul Howarth <paul at city-fan.org>