openssh loads sshd?

Scott Webster sewebster at gmail.com
Tue Jul 20 21:48:16 PDT 2010


On Tue, Jul 20, 2010 at 9:43 PM, Ryan Schmidt <ryandesign at macports.org> wrote:
> openssh includes a daemon which you can load. To load it, use the lengthy "sudo launchctl load ..." command, or, equivalently, the shortcut "sudo port load openssh". If you don't want to launch a daemon, don't use those command.
>

Ok, that was my assumption.  Thanks.  I guess I would prefer if we had
a more explanatory "instruction" during the install process.  The
current message is:

###########################################################
# A startup item has been generated that will aid in
# starting openssh with launchd. It is disabled
# by default. Execute the following command to start it,
# and to cause it to launch at startup:
#
# sudo port load openssh
###########################################################

which might lead some new users into just running the command without
understanding what they were doing.

Scott


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