Hi, My solaris machine hangs after following message: sylog service starting. Can anyone throw some light what can be the problem? I have changed /etc/inittab file a little: (only changed last entry with this) Privious: SV:23456:/usr/bin/sshd2 -D q Changed with: SV:23456:/usr/bin/sshd2 -d -q Before this I was continuously getting this message on console: INIT: Command is respawning too rapidly. Check for possible errors. id: SV "/usr/bin/sshd2 -D -q" Could anyone give an explanation to what happened? thanks, -ashish

I had the same problem initialating SSH Daemon from inittab. Now I either do with usual script in /etc/init.d/ssh (soft linked to /etc/rc2.d/Sxxssh) or via inetd.conf Here you have the ssh script #!/usr/bin/sh pid=`/usr/bin/ps -e | /usr/bin/grep sshd | /usr/bin/sed -e 's/^ *//' -e 's/ .*//'` case $1 in 'start') /usr/local/sbin/sshd ;; 'stop') if [ "${pid}" != "" ] then /usr/bin/kill ${pid} fi ;; *) echo "usage: /etc/init.d/sshd {start|stop}" ;; esac and the line for inetd.conf #sshd stream tcp nowait root /usr/local/sbin/tcpd /usr/local/sbin/sshd -b 512 -i (do use ONLY ONE of both methods) jorge