[Info-vax] SSH mysteriously stops working

[Jose Baars]

On May 19, 10:33 pm, Ken Fairfield <ken.fairfi... at gmail.com> wrote:
> On May 19, 8:55 am, hel... at astro.multiCLOTHESvax.de (Phillip Helbig---
> IIRC, you have several system disks in your cluster.  So you
> really have two choices:

>    1) Reconfigure TCPIP$SSH_DEVICE to point to your
>        cluster-common disk (I don't know if this is supported
>        of feasible...);
>
>    2) Choose one "master" node, and copy its HOSTKEY. and
>        HOSTKEY.PUB to the other cluster members'  ssh
>        directories.
>

Both work, but method 2 gives you less headaches when you need
to upgrade TCPIP. A lot of services, and SSH is definitely one of them
have been written with VMS clusters as an afterthought.
This all from teeth grinding personal experience.

Jose