sshd has failed, please contact the sysadmin

Posted by Mayur's BLOG

If you have changed the shell default Port 22 on a cPanel powered server , restarting sshd from the WHM will fail. You have to ssh to the server and issue the following command to restart sshd…

* /sbin/service sshd restart

To, temporarily, reset your shell port back to 22, run the following command from the Address field in browser:

SERVER_MAIN_IP:2087/scripts2/doautofixer?autofix=safesshrestart

Now, you should be able to access shell, and you need to restart sshd at the prompt using the command mentioned above

at 4:21 PM

    1 comments:

  1. shahid said... January 2, 2010 at 11:25 PM

    Hello,

    If you have changed default Port 22, you can fix that problem by modified /scripts/restartsrv

    $chkp = '22,SSH';
    $st = '/scripts/restartsrv_sshd --status';
    $command = '/scripts/restartsrv_sshd --restart';

    change to

    $chkp = 'enteryourserversshport,SSH';
    $st = '/scripts/restartsrv_sshd --status';
    $command = '/scripts/restartsrv_sshd --restart';
    =======================================

    Regards,
    Shahid

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