From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 5.01; Windows NT) /etc/rc.d/init.d/sshd should invoke sshd using its fully qualified path name, not just "sshd". If you just use "sshd", then sshd cannot reload its config file when it receives a SIGHUP: # kill -HUP `cat /var/run/sshd.pid` Instead, this kills sshd. I'm not sure which versions of the openssh-server RPM have this problem. My system has since been upgraded. It definitely happened with openssh 2.5.1p1. Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. kill -HUP `cat /var/run/sshd.pid` 2. ps uaxww|grep sshd Actual Results: You'll see that sshd is no longer running. Expected Results: sshd should be running.
*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 33122 ***