ESXi 3.5 update 4 and ssh

[mschddny]

On previous update 3, I had no problem using ssh to the esxi server. Now it seems after editing the inetd.conf and even rebooting the server I can not putty to the esxi server. Was there a change between update 3 to update 4?

[Dave_Mishchenko]

I have it running fine with update 4 (both with fresh installs and upgrades). Is the inetd.conf change surviving a reboot?

[mschddny]

No and I did exit with wq, strange what gives?

[Dave_Mishchenko]

vi is a bit of a pain to use. If you're interested I have an oem.tgz file that will enable SSH (and rsync and ftp) - http://www.vm-help.com/esx/esx3i/customize_oem_tgz.php.

[mschddny]

Thanks I will try this tomorrow morning. But I still don't undrestand why vi didn't work.

[Dave_Mishchenko]

I usually double a file after editing. Did you just remove the #? And not for example change ssh to SSH.

[mschddny]

Yeah the # was removed and saved it

[Dave_Mishchenko]

If it saved correctly but didn't survive a reboot then there's a change the system config may not be backing up correctly. You'll want to check that /bootbank/state.tgz 9 /bootbank/local.tgz for ESXi Embedded) is being updated each hour at 1 minute past the hour.

[mschddny]

This is the installed version not the embedded version.

[Dave_Mishchenko]

The 9 should have been ( - with instalable the backup file is /bootbank/state.tgz - with embedded it is /bootbank/local.tgz.

[JasonBarnes]

Is port 22 listening?

netstat -nlp |grep ssh

Also is the firewall blocking it?

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