2 files changed, 6 insertions, 1 deletions

diff --git a/debian/changelog b/debian/changelog
index a58cca063..536e94e93 100644
--- a/debian/changelog
+++ b/debian/changelog
@@ -8,6 +8,10 @@ openssh (1:5.1p1-5) UNRELEASED; urgency=low
     script; SIGHUP is racy if called at boot before sshd has a chance to
     install its signal handler, but fortunately the pid file is written
     after that which lets us avoid the race (closes: #502444).
+  * While the above is a valuable sanity-check, it turns out that it doesn't
+    really fix the bug (thanks to Kevin Price for testing), so for the
+    meantime we'll just use '/etc/init.d/ssh restart', even though it is
+    unfortunately heavyweight.
 
  -- Colin Watson <cjwatson@debian.org>  Mon, 01 Dec 2008 16:13:14 +0000
 
diff --git a/debian/openssh-server.if-up b/debian/openssh-server.if-up
index 8db44fded..3b3120c66 100644
--- a/debian/openssh-server.if-up
+++ b/debian/openssh-server.if-up
@@ -30,6 +30,7 @@ if [ ! -f /var/run/sshd.pid ] || \
         exit 0
 fi
 
-/etc/init.d/ssh reload >/dev/null 2>&1 || true
+# We'd like to use 'reload' here, but it has some problems; see #502444.
+/etc/init.d/ssh restart >/dev/null 2>&1 || true
 
 exit 0