Hi, It took me several hours to figure out what was going wrong with openssh on my systems. I had the following situation: Startet sshd, and it forked several times and then it died without any meaningful messages. If is start it with -d it works like a charm. The root of all these strange problems was that /dev/null was a regular file instead of the null device (my fault). Would it be possible to add some error message or something like this in case openssh can write to / use /dev/null? kind regards Philip Lawatsch