sshd dead but subsys locked

[Kristian0911]

You may encounter the error message while restarting SSH service in the server as :

[root@server init.d]# ./sshd status
sshd dead but subsys locked

The error occur due to some corrupted /dev files.

You will need to remove the NULL file and recreate it as :

Try :

rm /dev/null
mknod /dev/null c 1 3

rm /dev/random
mknod /dev/random c 1 8

rm /dev/urandom
mknod /dev/urandom c 1 9

Thanks