Platform:  NetBSD/i386 1.2.1 w/ ipfilter kernel patches

The machine in question acts almost exclusively as a socks5 gateway
between two ethernet segments.

While trying to install ssh I encountered a problem where the attempt to
write the file /etc/ssh_host_key (previously non-existent) caused a panic
and reboot. and yes i recreated this behaviour each time i attempted the
process.

the program in question is ssh-keygen

Here is the tail of my ktrace

   162 ssh-keygen RET   write 512/0x200
   162 ssh-keygen CALL  close(0x3)
   162 ssh-keygen RET   close 0
   162 ssh-keygen CALL  stat(0xf7bf992c,0xf7bf94cc)
   162 ssh-keygen NAMI  "/etc/ssh_host_key"
   162 ssh-keygen RET   stat -1 errno 2 No such file or directory
   162 ssh-keygen CALL  __sysctl(0xf7bf9394,0x2,0xf7bf93c8,0xf7bf939c,0,0)
   162 ssh-keygen RET   __sysctl 0
   162 ssh-keygen CALL  geteuid
   162 ssh-keygen RET   geteuid 0
   162 ssh-keygen CALL  geteuid
   162 ssh-keygen RET   geteuid 0
   162 ssh-keygen CALL  open(0xf7bf992c,0x601,0x180)
   162 ssh-keygen NAMI  "/etc/ssh_host_key"

and that's about where she goes down for the count.

thanks for any help


aron roberts
atr@pobox.com