Bug#778913: openssh-server: init (at least systemd) doesn't notice when sshd fails to start and reports success

[Christoph Anton Mitterer]

On Sun, 2015-02-22 at 17:53 +0000, Colin Watson wrote: 
> Well, um, in either case, isn't it pretty weird that "systemctl status"
> shows the unit as failed while the boot progress system shows it as OK?
> Feels like a systemd bug to me.
Arguably, I'mm CCing the systemd guys, perhaps they can help out!

The exit status returned by sshd is 255 (anyhow special to systemd?): 
# /usr/sbin/sshd -D -p 50000
/etc/ssh/sshd_config line 151: AuthorizedKeysCommand must be an absolute path
# echo $?
255



Cheers,
Chris.
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