SSH server always terminating after some time

[Daniel J Walsh]

On 11/14/2014 09:37 PM, Basil Mohamed Gohar wrote:
> On 11/14/2014 08:49 AM, Florian Weimer wrote:
>> On 11/14/2014 02:46 PM, Basil Mohamed Gohar wrote:
>>> The only non-standard thing I can think I'm doing is running SSH on
>>> another port, and I've already gotten SELinux to accept that fact.  The
>>> issue is not that it won't even connect.  It's that it goes down without
>>> any logical explanation.  The most I get from the log files
>>> (/var/log/secure) is this:
>>>
>>> Nov  9 12:04:29 alpha sshd[25259]: Received signal 15; terminating.
>> Do you see anything in the journal (view it with journalctl -a) related
>> to that time frame?
>>
> Thanks for the tip.  I'll skim through this and report back if I find anything interesting. 
>
If it happens at the same time each night, I would think it is a cron
job that is doing something to the
network or to the sshd daemon.