Oh yea! That's how I test/implement new configurations. Make a change restart test make a change Lather, rinse and repeat On Thu, Mar 2, 2017 at 6:26 PM, <me@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On Thu, 2 Mar 2017, Tate Belden wrote: > > I have to assume it's something unique to your install, then. >> >> I run about a dozen sshd instances on as many CentOS 7 boxes around here. >> To a one, systemctl restart sshd is all it takes to implement config >> changes. >> > > Did you actually change something before doing the restart? If nothing > changes > it will restart every time. If I change the configuration to for instance > have > sshd listen on another port, that is when I have the problem. Oh and > selinux is > in permissive. > > There is nothing special about the environment. a couple of VM's in > question > are brand new minimal installs. I spin them up for testing push new sshd > configs > to them with Ansible and tear them down. > > Before someone says Ansible is the problem I have tried this by hand also. > > > Regards, > > -- > Tom me@xxxxxxxxxx Spamtrap address > me123@xxxxxxxxxx > > >> On Thu, Mar 2, 2017 at 11:50 AM, <me@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: >> >> Hi, >>> >>> On Thu, 2 Mar 2017, Tate Belden wrote: >>> >>> Might I suggest using "systemctl restart sshd", instead of reload? At the >>> >>>> least - see if it behaves differently for you. >>>> >>>> >>> restart, reload, stop then start all produce the same results. >>> >>> If I do not change the configuration, and just issue the restart, reload, >>> etc. >>> then it behaves as expected. Obviously that is not useful when you have >>> configuration changes. >>> >>> I tested this on a couple of other VM's and get the same results. >>> >> > -- > Tom me@xxxxxxxxxx Spamtrap address > me123@xxxxxxxxxx > _______________________________________________ > CentOS mailing list > CentOS@xxxxxxxxxx > https://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos > -- Natrona County Beekeepers <http://ncbees.org> Casper Amateur Radio Club <http://casperarc.net> _______________________________________________ CentOS mailing list CentOS@xxxxxxxxxx https://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos