SSH Service Status

Question

I am checking the status of the SSH service by typing;

sudo service ssh status

I got the following output;

ssh start/running, process 889

Does this mean SSH status is okay. If not what should the output be if the status is okay.

Solution

To see more output (info) you could tail the syslog directly when you restart the ssh service like this:

sudo service ssh restart; tail -f /var/log/syslog

If the ssh service is not OK then you'll see something like this with exit codes, status etc:

Jun  2 10:57:03 xfce systemd[1]: ssh.service: main process exited, code=exited, status=255/n/a
Jun  2 10:57:03 xfce systemd[1]: Unit ssh.service entered failed state.
Jun  2 10:57:03 xfce systemd[1]: ssh.service failed.
Jun  2 10:57:03 xfce systemd[1]: ssh.service holdoff time over, scheduling restart.
Jun  2 10:57:03 xfce systemd[1]: start request repeated too quickly for ssh.service
Jun  2 10:57:03 xfce systemd[1]: Failed to start OpenBSD Secure Shell server.

But if it is OK then:

Jun  2 10:57:31 xfce systemd[1]: Started OpenBSD Secure Shell server.
Jun  2 10:57:31 xfce systemd[1]: Starting OpenBSD Secure Shell server...

Comments

[Admin]

Thanks for that. Just couldn't find any reference to what output to expect when checking status. I'm having difficulty with a ssh tunnel connection so going through all the necessary to try to sort it.

[Admin]

Thanks for that. Would have marked it as correct but Svan got in there first. Sorry.