Cannot reload/restart SSH using DA Service Monitor

[wtptrs]

Whenever we try restarting or reloading ssh using the DA Service Monitor on any of our DA servers, we get the following error:

An error has occurred

Details

/etc/init.d/sshd restart >/dev/null 2>&1

The only related log entry we can find appears in errortaskq.log:

2015:07:09-14:48:04: Error reloading service sshd : uid 0 gid 0 : /etc/init.d/sshd reload >/dev/null 2>/dev/null : returned 127

Restarting ssh manually on the server works fine:

restart ssh
ssh start/running, process 20099

service ssh restart; echo $?;
ssh stop/waiting
ssh start/running, process 10057
0

Anyone have an idea what the problem could be?

Thanks.

 

[zEitEr]

Hello,

Exit code 127 means "command not found". Possible problem with $PATH or a typo.

Add

set -x

into /etc/init.d/sshd

somewhere after

### END INIT INFO

and try to restart the service in directadmin. That might give you some clues.

 

[wtptrs]

Thanks for the response, it does seem $PATH related; when adding

echo "`date`: Path vars: $PATH" >> /root/sshd_path.txt

to /etc/init.d/sshd

output when restarting in shell:

Tue Jul 14 09:12:01 CEST 2015: Path vars: /usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin:/sbin:/bin

output when restarting via DA:

Tue Jul 14 09:12:27 CEST 2015: Path vars: /usr/bin:/bin

Where can I edit the $PATH variables Directadmin is using?

 

[zEitEr]

What file can't it find? I've got the following env when executing ssh restart via Directadmin:

TERM=xterm
SSH_USE_STRONG_RNG=0
PATH=/sbin:/usr/sbin:/bin:/usr/bin
PWD=/
LANG=en_US.UTF-8
SHLVL=1
_=/bin/env

on CentOS release 6.6 (Final)


How does your /etc/init.d/sshd look like?

 

[wtptrs]

Hey Alex,

Thanks for the help. We were able to fix this issue by adding

PATH=/usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin:/sbin:/bin

to /etc/init.d/directadmin and restarting the DA service.

We are running Ubuntu 12.04 servers for DA by the way and had this issue on all of our servers.