sshd: fatal: daemon() failed:
October 23, 2006
I had a few systems crash over the weekend, and one in particular had some filesystem corruption. It also happened that the file corruption was on the root filesystem, and it was a SAN boot machine. Anyhow, after booting up into a rescue disk (using pxe boot), I was able to fsck the root filesystem.
Then, ssh and portmap would not start. I found out the /dev/null was recreated as a normal file:
# ls -l /dev/null
-rw-r–r– 1 root root 0 Oct 23 12:04 /dev/null
It should have looked like this:
# ls -l /dev/null
crw-rw-rw- 1 root root 1, 3 Oct 23 15:07 /dev/null
So, to solve the problem
# rm /dev/null
# mknod /dev/null c 1 3
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