connect to host localhost port 22: Connection refused

Question

While installing hadoop in my local machine , i got following error

ssh -vvv localhost 
OpenSSH_5.5p1, OpenSSL 1.0.0e-fips 6 Sep 2011 
debug1: Reading configura         


        

Answer 1

I did all the suggestion above and it did not work. Then I restart the ssh service and it works. This is what I do:

service ssh restart

Then I redo

ssh localhost

Now I can connect to my localhost. Hope it helps