Success story: Seamless OpenSSH upgrade

Corey Edwards pluglist at plug.org
Tue Apr 29 15:24:38 MDT 2003


On Tue, 2003-04-29 at 14:14, Corey Edwards wrote:
> In this case, that's unnecessary. Your login is handled by the currently
> running sshd process which won't be stopped by init.d/sshd stop. But

I should have read that sentence one more time before hitting Send. To
clarify: sshd forks off a separate process for each login. The init
script only kills the parent sshd, so each current login goes on without
even a hiccup.

Corey





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