After upgrading to the latest available openssh-server and openssh-client packages under Debian Etch, monit can't start/restart and/or monitoring for sshd anymore. Everything seems to be normal, as i can connect via ssh to my server, but when i try to enable monitoring in monit, the following error occurs: Status: Connection failed Port Response time: connection failed to localhost:22 [SSH via TCP] How can this problem be solved? For your information i enclosed the /etc/ssh/ssh_config configuration file and the part concerning sshd of the file /etc/monit/monitrc configuration file. After executing the "top"command and also: ps aux | awk '{ print $8 " " $2 }' | grep -w Z I can see that there are no zombie processes left... Thanks for your help in advance!
Monit can monitor sshd again thanks to Falko! After comenting out the line: #if failed port 22 protocol ssh then restart and add the line: if failed port 22 then restart Everything works fine again.
