[TriLUG] Weird SSH behavior

[Tarus Balog]

Okay, on Red Hat Linux 9, two boxes, I have the following issue.

Over time, the number of sshd processes will grow. When it reaches ten  
processes (most of them defunct), sshd will stop taking connections  
(per the default).

Has anyone else seen this?

It may actually be an OpenNMS issue. Chris Hedemark complained that our  
SSH poller never sent a version number, so it would cause a number of  
logs to be generated. I modified the poller to send the version string,  
and the logs went away, but I wonder if there is something else I need  
to do.

I am not positive this is the case, because as I watch the process list  
I can see the processes that OpenNMS starts, and they eventually clear.

-T

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