Novice help-trying to have SSH daemon startup

Forum: HD Install
Topic: Novice help-trying to have SSH daemon startup
started by: ethernet

Posted by ethernet on Feb. 01 2006,06:42

Hello everyone,

please forgive this perheaps very stupid question,
but I was unable to find aswer a suitable answer by searching the previous posts.

I have a working HD install of DSL and the problem that I have is this: I can't have SSH daemon run on startup. When I reboot the system, I lose remote SSH access, as a result. I found a reference to {ssh} option as a cheatcode to run daemons on LiveCD boot. But I could not find instructions on changing the startup isntructions to have the HD install run SSH daemon every time it boots up. Could someone please point me in the right direction (again, I'm very new to Linux and I could not extrapolate by searching Google like I could for windows stuff).

Thanks in advance.

Posted by roberts on Feb. 02 2006,06:59

How about adding the following line to your /opt/bootlocal.sh
/etc/init.d/ssh start

That should work for all types of installs of DSL.

Posted by ethernet on Feb. 02 2006,13:37

Thanks very much for your answer! I was previously looking in /etc/rcd instead. I have opened the contents of bootlocal.sh and yes indeed there are references to startup commands:

#!/bin/bash
# put other system startup command here
/sbin/syslogd
loadkeys us

I appreciate this peice of advice.