Success story: Seamless OpenSSH upgrade

[Jimmy]

On Wed, 30 Apr 2003, Andy Bradford wrote:

> Oddly enough,  I have run into  an sshd stop|start script  that actually
> killed all sshd processes that were running. It was very annoying to say
> the least---I don't recall if it was RedHat or Mandrake...

So have I. Not fun on a distant co-lo box in the middle of the night. 
Nowadays I always change the root password to something stupid, start up 
telnetd, upgrade sshd, and if all is well, change the root password back, 
and stop telnetd. Even though I haven't had the problem with the init 
scripts killing sshd children since, it lowers the stress level 
considerably.

J