Starting and Stopping on Other Unix Platforms

If the server needs to be started, stopped, or restarted manually, the ssh-server-g3 script can be used.

The command has the following syntax:

ssh-server-g3 [command]

The command can be either start, stop, restart, or reload.

start: Start the server.
stop: Stop the server. Existing connections stay open until closed from the client side.
restart: Start a new server process. Existing connections stay open using the old server process. The old process is closed after the last old connection is closed from the client side.
reload: Reload the configuration file. Existing connections stay open.

The path to the ssh-server-g3 script varies between operating systems: