SSH not starting on reboot

[lincoln6ix]

How did you configure sshd_config?

I just replaced port 25 with my new port and replaced ListenAddress 123.123.123.123 to my new IP eg.

Port 30002
#ListenAddress ::
ListenAddress 345.345.345.345
Protocol 2

and I set my new IP up in /etc/network/interfaces as so

# Automatically generated by OnApp (2.0.rc5)
auto lo
iface lo inet loopback

auto eth0
iface eth0 inet static
        address 123.123.123.123
        netmask 255.255.255.128
        broadcast 123.123.123.255
        network 123.123.123.128
        gateway 123.123.123.129

auto eth0:1
iface eth0:1 inet static
        address 345.345.345.345
        netmask 255.255.255.0
        gateway 345.345.345.1

It sounds like it's starting SSH up before networking is starting up.

Yep that's what I figured - in fact in syslog you can see that my primary ip is started and then it tries SSH and then after avahi it starts my new interface / IP.

[CharlesA]

Is this a desktop or server install? Avahi shouldn't be running on a server box.

[lincoln6ix]

Is this a desktop or server install? Avahi shouldn't be running on a server box.

It's a 10.04 Server install... It was from a standard Ubuntu 10.04 VPS image from VPS.net.

[CharlesA]

It's a 10.04 Server install... It was from a standard Ubuntu 10.04 VPS image from VPS.net.

Hrm. Maybe they set their images up differently.

All the normal 10.04 server installs I've done, that service isn't running.

Regardless, you wouldn't need it, since you've got a static IP set.

[lincoln6ix]

Hrm. Maybe they set their images up differently.

All the normal 10.04 server installs I've done, that service isn't running.

Regardless, you wouldn't need it, since you've got a static IP set.

I removed Avahi in the hope that it may have been the cause, but unfortunately not. It is sstill trying to get SSH to listen to an interface before it is started.

[CharlesA]

I removed Avahi in the hope that it may have been the cause, but unfortunately not. It is sstill trying to get SSH to listen to an interface before it is started.

I guess you could always tell it to start ssh after the interface is up. Add it to /etc/network/interfaces

post-up service ssh start

[areeda]

I guess you could always tell it to start ssh after the interface is up. Add it to /etc/network/interfaces

post-up service ssh start

Charles,
Would you expand on this a bit or point me to the documentation?

My situation is that I have 2 interfaces one on the Internet on one on my intranet. I am using an odd-ball port on the Internet and 22 on the intranet. I know it's not real security but it cuts down on number of amateur hackers filling up my log files so I can actually see if a real threat is in there.

Same SSH error 255 in syslog on boot and service ssh restart on the console gets everything working as desired.

In /etc/network/interfaces all I have is setup for 127.0.0.1 will post-up wait for the other interfaces?

As I grep through the start up files I wonder if modifying /etc/init.d/ssh might be more appropriate
The line in the INIT INFO section:
# Required-Start: $remote_fs $syslog

what do you think about adding "$network $named"? I would much prefer to specify listenAddress as a hostname rather than IP address.

Joe