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

What worked for me is:

sudo mkdir /var/run/sshd
sudo apt-get install --reinstall openssh-server

I tried all the above mentioned solutions but somehow this directory /var/run/sshd was still missing for me. I have Ubuntu 16.04.4 LTS. Hope my answer helps if someone has the same issue. ubuntu sshxenial