I'm trying to restart openssh-server in Ubuntu 10.10 by typing:
sudo /etc/init.d/ssh restart
and I'm getting this error:
sudo: unable to execute /etc/init.d/ssh: Text file busy
asked Oct 23, 2010 at 3:11
4 Answers
I don't know if it'll make any difference, but Ubuntu's had start and stop service control for a while. E.g:
start ssh
stop ssh
start <service-name-here>
It sounds like you might have the file /etc/init.d/ssh open for writing somewhere, and therefore can't execute it. See this answer.
What does
ps -f -p $(pgrep -f -d, '/etc/init.d/ssh')
get you?
You can do a
sudo killall sshd
then restart it with
sudo service sshd start
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hmmm... the killall seemed to work, but the start command says "unrecognized service" Oct 23, 2010 at 12:22
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oh, and even after killall I can still ssh in. I'm terribly confused. Oct 23, 2010 at 12:24
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I'm not sure it's also true on Ubuntu but on Debian, you can properly restart your openssh server without using init.d file with:
# start-stop-daemon --stop --signal 1 --quiet --oknodo --pidfile /var/run/sshd.pid --exec /usr/sbin/sshd
ls -l /etc/init.d/sshsay? Also, is it sudo itself that's having the problem? Try running some other command with sudo and see if you get the same error message