SSHD fatal: daemon() failed: No such device

If you got error like "sshd stop failed", check the log message in  /var/log/secure . Here you may find the "SSHD fatal: daemon() failed: No such device" error.

You can solve it using the following simple steps:

# rm -rf /dev/null
# mknod /dev/null c 1 3

# /etc/rc.d/init.d/sshd restart

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