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

If you're certain that you have installed ssh, then it's possible that ssh and/or sshd has been terminated or the server service hasn't been started. To check whether these processes are running use:

//this tells you whether your ssh instance is active/inactive
sudo service ssh status

OR

//this list all running processes whose names contain the string "ssh"
sudo ps -A | grep ssh

It's likely that ssh would be active and running but sshd would not. To enable them:

sudo service ssh start

NB; - some systems have a restart option but mine didn't