You can savely use "rcsshd restart" even when you are logged on via ssh. The only thing what will happen is, that the parent-sshd ist killed and startet again. All the child-processes it spawned before stay alive until these sessions will be ended by their users. New ssh-logins will be spawned of the new parent-sshd. On Dienstag, 8. April 2003 22:26, Hofmann Informatik wrote: [rcsshd reload doesn't restart sshd on SuSE 8.2]
I have to use reload because I'm connected over ssh to the server. [...]
I don't habe a SuSE 8.2 box at hand, but have yourself a look at /etc/init.d/sshd. /usr/sbin/rcsshd is a symbolik link to this script on a SuSE-System. On a 8.1 reload causes sending a HUP-signal to the ssh daemon process which should make every daemon reload its config (if it's implemented as it should be). A "restart" does run a "stop" following a "start". "stop" will send a TERM-signal to the daemon which will terminate it. HTH -- Eat, sleep and go running, David Huecking. Encrypted eMail welcome! GnuPG/ PGP-Key: 0x57809216. Fingerprint: 3DF2 CBE0 DFAA 4164 02C2 4E2A E005 8DF7 5780 9216