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

try sudo vi /etc/ssh/sshd_config

in first few lies you'll find

Package generated configuration file

See the sshd_config(5) manpage for details

What ports, IPs and protocols we listen for

Port xxxxx

change Port xxxxx to "Port 22" and exit vi by saving changes.

restart ssh sudo service ssh restart