Use --retry in init script when restarting rather than sleeping, to make

sure the old process is dead (thanks, Herbert Xu; closes: #212117).

2 files changed, 3 insertions, 2 deletions

diff --git a/debian/changelog b/debian/changelog
index 2dc8d3b23..06fea7b77 100644
--- a/debian/changelog
+++ b/debian/changelog
@@ -3,6 +3,8 @@ openssh (1:3.7.1p2-1) UNRELEASED; urgency=low
   * New upstream release.
   * Remove -fno-builtin-log and -DHAVE_MMAP_ANON_SHARED compiler options,
     which are no longer necessary.
+  * Use --retry in init script when restarting rather than sleeping, to make
+    sure the old process is dead (thanks, Herbert Xu; closes: #212117).
 
  -- Colin Watson <cjwatson@debian.org>  Tue, 23 Sep 2003 19:22:38 +0100
 
diff --git a/debian/init b/debian/init
index 641b9eff5..552330422 100644
--- a/debian/init
+++ b/debian/init
@@ -59,10 +59,9 @@ case "$1" in
   restart)
         check_config
         echo -n "Restarting OpenBSD Secure Shell server: sshd"
-        start-stop-daemon --stop --quiet --oknodo --pidfile /var/run/sshd.pid
+        start-stop-daemon --stop --quiet --oknodo --retry 30 --pidfile /var/run/sshd.pid
         check_for_no_start
         check_privsep_dir
-        sleep 2
         start-stop-daemon --start --quiet --pidfile /var/run/sshd.pid --exec /usr/sbin/sshd -- $SSHD_OPTS
         echo "."
         ;;