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hirohitosan · #1 January 17th, 2009, 13:53

Hi there.
During exploring my logs I found a message that appear often:

Code:

kernel: Jan 17 11:47:38 user inetd[902]: ssh/tcp: bind: Address already in use

how can I get rid of that and from where it comes?

thanks

ale · #2 January 17th, 2009, 14:15

Are you starting sshd with inetd?
Check the output of

Code:

$ grep sshd /etc/rc.conf
$ grep sshd /etc/inetd.conf

hirohitosan · #3 January 17th, 2009, 14:20

yes

Code:

grep sshd /etc/rc.conf
sshd_enable="YES"
> grep sshd /etc/inetd.conf
ssh     stream  tcp     nowait  root    /usr/sbin/sshd          sshd -i -4
#ssh    stream  tcp6    nowait  root    /usr/sbin/sshd          sshd -i -6
>

ale · #4 January 17th, 2009, 14:31

You see, you are starting it twice.
Either comment the one in /etc/rc.conf or the one in /etc/inetd.conf depending on how you want to have it started.

hirohitosan · #5 January 17th, 2009, 17:58

Thanks ...

I understood. And if we are here. I disable sshd in inetd. In this case my inetd starts nothing. Does it make sense to start it at boot?

thanks

**DutchDaemon** · #6 January 17th, 2009, 18:03

If you don't have anything enabled in inetd.conf there's no need to start it from rc.conf at all, so you can remove the inetd_enable="YES" line from it.

hirohitosan · #7 January 17th, 2009, 20:16

Thanks. I disable inetd and reboot

ale · #8 January 17th, 2009, 20:26

You for completeness, a reboot is not needed, you can use something like # /etc/rc.d/inetd forcestop or with # /etc/rc.d/inetd stop before commenting the line in /etc/rc.conf

hirohitosan · #9 January 17th, 2009, 21:21

Thank you. And for my full completeness, what is the difference in starting a server through inetd or standalone? Is there any suggestions in this?

ale · #10 January 17th, 2009, 21:36

If you start it from /etc/rc.conf sshd will be up listening on (default) port 22 .
If you start it from /etc/inetd.conf, inetd will be listening on the same port. When a connection to that port is opened, inetd will start sshd and it will stop it when the connection get closed.

hirohitosan · #11 January 18th, 2009, 00:33

Thank you. I got it

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