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# 1  
Old 08-13-2013
SSH : Restarting too quickly, changing state to maintenance
Hi,

I'm new to Solaris. I have an issue with ssh service. When I restart the service it exits with an exit status of 0

Code:
[root@Server1 /var/adm]$svcadm restart svc:/network/ssh:default
[root@Server1 /var/adm]$echo $?
0
[root@Server1 /var/adm]$

However, the service goes into maintenance mode after restart. I'm able to connect even though the service is in maintenance mode.

Code:
[root@Server1 /var/adm]$svcadm restart svc:/network/ssh:default
[root@Server1 /var/adm]$echo $?
0
[root@Server1 /var/adm]$

and logs indicate the following

Code:
[ Aug 13 23:49:07 Leaving maintenance because disable requested. ]
[ Aug 13 23:49:07 Disabled. ]
[ Aug 13 23:49:25 Enabled. ]
[ Aug 13 23:49:25 Executing start method ("/lib/svc/method/sshd start") ]
[ Aug 13 23:49:25 Method "start" exited with status 0 ]
[ Aug 13 23:49:25 Stopping because all processes in service exited. ]
[ Aug 13 23:49:25 Executing stop method (:kill) ]
[ Aug 13 23:49:25 Executing start method ("/lib/svc/method/sshd start") ]
[ Aug 13 23:49:25 Method "start" exited with status 0 ]
[ Aug 13 23:49:25 Stopping because all processes in service exited. ]
[ Aug 13 23:49:25 Executing stop method (:kill) ]
[ Aug 13 23:49:25 Executing start method ("/lib/svc/method/sshd start") ]
[ Aug 13 23:49:25 Method "start" exited with status 0 ]
[ Aug 13 23:49:25 Stopping because all processes in service exited. ]
[ Aug 13 23:49:25 Executing stop method (:kill) ]
[ Aug 13 23:49:25 Executing start method ("/lib/svc/method/sshd start") ]
[ Aug 13 23:49:25 Method "start" exited with status 0 ]
[ Aug 13 23:49:25 Stopping because all processes in service exited. ]
[ Aug 13 23:49:25 Executing stop method (:kill) ]
[ Aug 13 23:49:25 Restarting too quickly, changing state to maintenance ]

I'm not sure why the service is in maintenance mode.

Thanks

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Last edited by DukeNuke2; 08-13-2013 at 11:07 AM..
# 2  
Old 08-13-2013
Please post output of
Code:
svcs -xv ssh

and
Code:
ps -ef | grep sshd

# 3  
Old 08-14-2013
Quote:
Originally Posted by maverick_here
However, the service goes into maintenance mode after restart. I'm able to connect even though the service is in maintenance mode.
Which likely means you already have another sshd daemon running without smf supervision.
# 4  
Old 08-14-2013
Following is the output of svcs -xv


Code:
[root@Server1 /]$svcs -xv ssh
svc:/network/ssh:default (SSH server)
 State: maintenance since Tue Aug 13 23:49:25 2013
Reason: Restarting too quickly.
   See: http://sun.com/msg/SMF-8000-L5
   See: man -M /usr/share/man -s 1M sshd
   See: /var/svc/log/network-ssh:default.log
Impact: This service is not running.

and the output of ps -ef | grep sshd

Code:
[root@Server1 /]$ps -ef|grep sshd
    root 13228 16789   0 19:31:47 ?           0:00 /usr/lib/ssh/sshd
    root 25315 16789   0 18:21:03 ?           0:00 /usr/lib/ssh/sshd
    root 20811 16789   0 18:08:58 ?           0:00 /usr/lib/ssh/sshd
  syd208 10372 10371   0 19:18:36 ?           0:01 /usr/lib/ssh/sshd
  syd211  7030  7029   0 19:01:44 ?           0:01 /usr/lib/ssh/sshd
    root 11090 16789   0 19:22:08 ?           0:00 /usr/lib/ssh/sshd
   syd22 29519 29518   0 18:32:45 ?           0:01 /usr/lib/ssh/sshd
    root 28969 16789   0 18:31:37 ?           0:00 /usr/lib/ssh/sshd
  syd265 26877 26854   0 18:25:49 ?           0:01 /usr/lib/ssh/sshd
    root 24826 16789   0 18:19:36 ?           0:00 /usr/lib/ssh/sshd
    root 27278     1   0   Aug 12 ?           0:19 /usr/lib/ssh/sshd
    root 29378 16789   0 18:32:23 ?           0:00 /usr/lib/ssh/sshd
  superv 14795 14794   0   Aug 13 ?           0:02 /usr/lib/ssh/sshd

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