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binaryorganic
Asked: 2010-10-23 19:11:32 +0800 CST

I'm having trouble restarting openssh server

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I'm trying to restart openssh-server in Ubuntu 10.10 by typing:

sudo /etc/init.d/ssh restart

and I'm getting this error:

sudo: unable to execute /etc/init.d/ssh: Text file busy
command-line-interface ssh

4 Answers

  1. It sounds like you might have the file /etc/init.d/ssh open for writing somewhere, and therefore can't execute it. See this answer.

    What does

    ps -f -p $(pgrep -f -d, '/etc/init.d/ssh')

    get you?

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  2. You can do a 

    sudo killall sshd

    then restart it with

    sudo service sshd start
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  3. Best Answer

    I don't know if it'll make any difference, but Ubuntu's had start and stop service control for a while. E.g:

    start ssh
stop ssh

start <service-name-here>
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  4. I'm not sure it's also true on Ubuntu but on Debian, you can properly restart your openssh server without using init.d file with:

    # start-stop-daemon --stop --signal 1 --quiet --oknodo --pidfile /var/run/sshd.pid --exec /usr/sbin/sshd

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