This means that SSHD_MASTER found a valid identification message, marked
its incoming socket for handoff to SSHD2, then spawned an SSHD2
process. The first thing SSHD2 does is to assign a socket to the one that
was marked for handoff. In the course of this, it received an error
indication, saying the socket is no longer available. I recommend you
restart SSH, then examine MULTINET:SSHD_MASTER.LOG to see if it says
anything about why the socket went away. Do you have the latest SSH ECO?


At 04:40 AM 11/6/2007, yehavi@vms.huji.ac.il wrote:
>Hello,
>
> Yesterday our SSH daemon stopped accepting connections; in SSHD.LOG I
> see the
>following message:
>
>Failed to get handed-off socket: errno 6
>
>Anyone has an idea what to do?
>
>Background: VMS-7.3-2, Multinet 5.2.
>Two days before the problem I've installed VMS patches SYS-4.0 and LOADSS-1.0.
>After a reboot SSH daemon worked for a while and then stopped.
>
> Thanks! __Yehavi:

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I have seen the same problem but under OpenVMS version 8.3 after installing
the VMS83A_SYS-V0400 ECO released October 31. Removing the VMS83A_SYS-V0400
ECO got rid of the problem. I notice that a VMS83A_SYS-V0500 ECO has since
been released on November 5; however, as the ECO release notes say the V0500
version was released to address an issue in the replacement of the HELPLIB
library, I would expect that VMS83A_SYS-V0500 has the same issue with
the MultiNET SSHD_MASTER as VMS83A_SYS-V0400.

Bill

Bill Glessner - Bill.Glessner@cwu.EDU
System Programmer
Central Washington University

>Return-path:
>Date: Tue, 06 Nov 2007 13:26:19 -0700
>From: Dan O'Reilly
>Subject: Re: SSH daemon fails with "Failed to get handed-off socket: errno 6"
>To: info-multinet@process.com
>Cc: info-multinet@process.com
>
>This means that SSHD_MASTER found a valid identification message, marked
>its incoming socket for handoff to SSHD2, then spawned an SSHD2
>process. The first thing SSHD2 does is to assign a socket to the one that
>was marked for handoff. In the course of this, it received an error
>indication, saying the socket is no longer available. I recommend you
>restart SSH, then examine MULTINET:SSHD_MASTER.LOG to see if it says
>anything about why the socket went away. Do you have the latest SSH ECO?
>
>>At 04:40 AM 11/6/2007, yehavi@vms.huji.ac.il wrote:
>>Hello,
>>
>> Yesterday our SSH daemon stopped accepting connections; in SSHD.LOG I
>> see the
>>following message:
>>
>>Failed to get handed-off socket: errno 6
>>
>>Anyone has an idea what to do?
>>
>>Background: VMS-7.3-2, Multinet 5.2.
>>Two days before the problem I've installed VMS patches SYS-4.0 and LOADSS-1.0.
>>After a reboot SSH daemon worked for a while and then stopped.
>>
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>+-------------------------------+----------------------------------------+
>| Dan O'Reilly | "There are 10 types of people in this |
>| Principal Engineer | world: those who understand binary |
>| Process Software | and those who don't." |
>| http://www.process.com | |
>+-------------------------------+----------------------------------------+