SSH help

[TaylorVcl]

I am trying to just get sshd started on my machine (RedHat). Everything I read about setting it up says that I should have a startup script in /etc/init.d. There is no such startup script for sshd anywhere. Of course, I can't use chkconfig either. It just tells me that the sshd service doesn't exist.

Help.

[Hayl]

is it installed?

did you instll with an RPM or compile fro source?

[TaylorVcl]

Thanks for you reply.

It was supposedly installed with RedHat, (that's what rpm told me), but I could never find the sshd binary.

So, I installed the latest tarball openssh-3.6.1p2.tar.gz, and I see no startup script.

There was one service that I installed a while ago (don't remember what) where I had to copy a startup script from the source code into /etc/init.d after the install. I have combed though the source code for this and see nothing about the startup script. There are sites giving instructions on how to set ssh up. They just talk about the startup script like it is just supposed to be there. I don't know what to think.

[serz]

The script gets installed if you install the Red Hat package.

Try starting the ssh daemon running "sshd start".

[TaylorVcl]

This is resolved.

I didn't know that RedHat had the SSH Server as a separate RPM. The openssh tarball has everything in one package.

Thanks for the help and attention!