Description of problem:
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openssh version: openssh-3.9p1-8.RHEL4.20


The sshd dameon got frozen and When "service sshd restart" is done, it displays
that the stop/start has been successful. But infact the old sshd was not terminated.


#service sshd restart
Stopping sshd:                                             [  OK  ]
Starting sshd:                                             [  OK  ]


# service sshd start
Starting sshd:                                             [  OK  ]


Since old sshd hasn't been killed, when the new one tries to listen on port 22,
it fails. This is because kill command used in killproc() just returns 0 after
sending a signal.

With that mechanism We can't detect if a completely wedged process is really
killed or not.

This is not obvious for the user since it displays OK...

The failure only shows up in the log (/var/log/secure):

Sep  5 20:29:33 n27 sshd[30475]: error: Bind to port 22 on 0.0.0.0 failed:
Address already in use.
Sep  5 20:29:33 n27 sshd[30475]: fatal: Cannot bind any address.
Sep  5 20:29:33 n27 sshd[2841]: Received signal 15; terminating.


The restart(), start() and stop() functions in sshd init-script should handle
this scenario. They (or killproc fucntion ) should check for sshd pid once more
after sending terminate signal and before trying to start a new sshd.

Additional info:
This has been corrected in RHEL5's initscripts. Instead of sending a killproc
$SSHD -TERM, we send KILL (default).

Can this also be applied in RHEL4 ?