Two independent SSHD processes?

[Ed Greshko]

On 01/21/15 10:01, CLOSE Dave wrote:
> Ed Greshko wrote:
>
>>> But if you read the SSHD man page and the /etc/rc.d/init.d/sshd script,
>>> you'll find that the PID is always recorded at /var/run/sshd.pid and the
>>> PidFile variable is only used for reporting status.
>> And if you tried it?
>>
>> [root at meimei run]# grep pid /etc/ssh/sshd_config
>> PidFile /var/run/sshd-meimei.pid
>>
>> [root at meimei run]# ls /var/run | grep sshd
>> sshd-meimei.pid
>>
>> [root at meimei run]# cat /var/run/sshd-meimei.pid
>> 16561
>>
>> [root at meimei run]# ps -eaf | grep 16561
>> root     16561     1  0 09:48 ?        00:00:00 /usr/sbin/sshd -D
>>
>> So......  Follow Rick's recommendation....
> I have tried it. At least on an earlier Fedora with SysV.

I don't use any of those old versions as they are no longer supported.

>
> The specified PID file is NOT created. Service stop fails because the 
> PID file is not found.
>
> What you and others seem to be telling me is that the problem doesn't 
> exist on systemd machines, even though the man page implies that it 
> still works the same way. I'll try F21 soon.

Well, I don't "seem" to be telling you.  I'm actually showing you.  :-) :-)

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