does sshd generate its own logs, or is that handled through syslogd?
it sounds to me like you may be getting something segfaulting on you, 
but unless there was more data (I.E. logs), I can't be rel sure.

also, what revision of the ssh server set are you using?

Hawke

Don Harrop wrote:
> 
> Hey pluggers.
> 
>   I've written an HPUX init.d startup script to start sshd at bootup.
> The problem is that no matter what I do the daemon is killed off after
> init.d is over.  I know that it starts because I've encorporated a ps
> command to output to a file in my script and it is a process running.
> After I log in though and do an lsof -i :22 or a ps to find my sshdaemon
> it's not there.  I've tried starting it with an & for a background process
> and that doesn't work.  I've also tried su'ing to root and executing sshd
> but I get an error message saying I don't have execute permissions.  sshd
> is chmod'ed 755 so it should be able to execute.  I need a bone here
> guys.. :-)
> 
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