On Fri, 28 Sep 2001, Ganesan Kanavathy wrote: > Dear Sir, > > How do I check whether sshd is running on my box and how do I > to change it to use ssh client to login. I am really new to Linux > world. > > Regards, > Ganesh Use the ps command to get a listing of running programs. Read the man page. On Linux I usually use ps aux, on Solaris ps -ef. If you've installed ssh as an rpm, you can probably issue the command /etc/rc.d/init.d/sshd status. Secure shell is for *remote* login. You use an ssh client to access the remote server. It works very similar to telnet, except everything is encrypted. -Arild
