[Gllug] ssh daemon problem

[Adrian McMenamin]

On Thu, 2006-08-31 at 23:57 +0100, Adrian McMenamin wrote:
> Finally coaxed a failure line out of sshd in the syslog - the helpful:
> 
> Aug 31 22:54:50 transpero sshd[2958]: fatal: daemon() failed: Success
> 

Actually, that helped me solve it - as it finally hooked in to some
things on google that explained what was wrong. So, for the sake of
other googlers in time to come...

My /dev/null was not configured as a proper node and so this fixed it:

rm /dev/null 
mknod -m 666 /dev/null c 1 3 

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